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Top photo: Fall begins to make its appearance across the Nation. Pro-Pipe USA breaks ground at Iron Horse A LOOK INSIDE Tribal leaders, congressional representatives and local officials welcomed Canadian Page 9 firm Pro-Pipe USA LLC to the Citizen Nation in Pottawatomie County, , for the pipeline manufacturer’s groundbreaking ceremony at Iron Horse Industrial Park. “Pro Pipe USA’s investment in Iron Horse will help to drive economic development Tribe and Chairman win REI in Oklahoma,” said Citizen Potawatomi Oklahoma Vision Award Nation Tribal Chairman John “Rocky” Barrett. “Iron Horse Industrial Park and CPN provide an excellent environment Page 10 for manufacturers to produce and distribute their products. We thank Pro Pipe USA for the partnership.” “It is wonderful to be able to stand here Robert Wilder, Patrick Lamoureux, Chairman John “Rocky” Barrett and Dan in this spot and to think about the times Porodo celebrate the company’s groundbreaking at the Iron Horse Industrial Park. the Chairman and I drove past this field and he pointed to the fields and Act. The act restores the authority of And the answer is, you could, just no Tribal election notice for 2020 said ‘Here’s what we hope to do,’” said federally recognized tribes to develop one has,” said Lankford. “So to be able Senator James Lankford and implement their own laws governing to open this park up, let’s get rail line to at the groundbreaking ceremony. the long-term leasing of Indian lands for it, let’s start this vision, start employment Page 14 residential, business and other purposes. in this area and let’s have the vision of Pro-Pipe USA LLC will operate a what we’re doing here reach out across Hownikan founder, CPN Elder 50,000-square-foot production facility at “Iron Horse’s location is ideal for logistics, the entire globe, it’s now begun.” Beverly Hughes walks on Iron Horse Industrial Park located on 25 access to markets while the economic acres of land. Once at peak production, environment is ideal,” Lamoureux Iron Horse’s success is critical to the Pages 17-23 Pro-Pipe USA LLC’s Iron Horse facility said. “The (Oklahoma) region offers re-opening of the line, which can will employ 20 to 30 workers who will a similar economics to Canada in provide an east-west connection of four Tribal Executive and manufacture high density polyethylene terms of an area that is rich in amazing major north-south rail corridors to Legislative updates pipe for the oil and gas, mining, people, oil and gas, and agriculture.” significantly enhance regional commerce. irrigation, sewer, telecommunications, Pro-Pipe USA LLC expects operations geothermal and municipal water markets. Senator Lankford noted that the Iron Page 24 to begin by summer of 2020, including Horse opening would be an anchor Walking on “The historical connection between expansion with its affiliate partners, for development along the rail line Canada and CPN is the people,” Pro- thus creating additional employment. that runs into southeast Oklahoma. The industrial park’s northern border Pipe USA-LLC’s Patrick Lamoureux “We can never predict the weather, but said. “This commercial trade will lead touches the North Canadian River, Pro-Pipe USA LLC will be producing their where a rail bridge washed out in 1994 to ongoing commerce between CPN pipeline products within the next year,” and Canada via Pro-Pipe USA LLC before AOK-CPN and federal partners CPN Economic Development Director worked to re-open it in 2013. Then- and its Canadian business interests.” James C. Collard said. “This is not the Congressman Lankford was on hand for only great news, as many know that one The company’s production facility is that commemoration ceremony just a manufacturing job tends to support and in the initial stages of construction, few hundred feet from where Pro-Pipe multiply three or four outside jobs as well.” with CPN retaining ownership of the USA’s groundbreaking took place. facility while subleasing it to Pro-Pipe The industrial park has been in USA LLC through contractual tenets “For decades we have hoped to be able consideration for several years and first PR SRT STD PR SRT US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO 49 PERMIT laid out by the U.S. Helping Expedite to get back across that river again to

STIGLER, OK 74462 saw significant progress when a 2008 and Advance Responsible Tribal be able to re-establish commerce for independent feasibility study indicated Homeownership Act, or HEARTH all of southeast Oklahoma,” Lankford the park was worth pursuing. The feasibility study was followed by a detailed said. “But no one could get it done econometric analysis by Professor Joseph until this Tribe, AOK and our team Kalt of Harvard University, which stepped up and worked with the corps revealed an industrial park would have a of engineers and said ‘let’s figure out significant economic impact on the region. how to get it done’ ... To this tribe, thank you for what you’ve done.” Those studies served as the basis of the Tribe’s application for an Economic De- Iron Horse is a general-use industrial velopment Administration grant. In 2011, park located on the national rail line CPN was awarded a $1 million EDA network in the center of the United grant to build infrastructure to support States. It consists of a 400-acre site of development of the industrial park. Native American trust land owned by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, located 35 By developing Iron Horse Industrial minutes east of Oklahoma City and is a Park as a destination for manufacturers satellite site of Foreign-Trade Zone #106. and those participating in international trade, CPN looks to increase its The well-planned layout of the park pro- ability to be a job creator and vides tenants with direct access to both rail supporter in east central Oklahoma. and the U.S. highway system. The indus- trial park is less than 10 miles from Inter- “The vision for this park has really been state 40 and within two miles of U.S. 177. Oklahoma Senator James Lankford a driving force to say ‘Why couldn’t we Its midwest location on Native American speaks during the ceremony. do international commerce right here?’ trust land financially supports tenants. 2 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN House of Hope offers parenting classes

By Kayla Woody, House of Hope Prevention Specialist As we all know, parenting can be incredibly challenging and difficult to master. We live in a demanding society with many distractions, and our tasks are never ending. Parents want what is best for their children, but knowing how to provide that sometimes can be tough. At the House of Hope, we offer parenting classes, at no charge, to those in the community who either need or desire such training. Deciding to take a parenting class doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. It shows you care about your family and the future of your children. On top of all that, parenting classes also give you an opportunity to connect with other parents who are most likely going through a lot of the same experiences as you. At the end of the eight-week course, participants will receive a certificate of completion with no test requirements. Since these classes do last several weeks, participants have the time to put into practice what is being taught. All classes occur at the House of Hope’s main location at 1310 S Gordon Cooper Drive in . The class goes over many different It is a group-like structure that allows incorporate information and skills Those interested in taking the class or topics and can be helpful for parents everyone to discuss strategies with others into these classes to help parents or who have questions, please feel free or guardians with children at all stages because no two children are the same. guardians who struggle with these types to contact our Prevention Specialist, of adolescence. The topics covered of situations. It is important that we Kayla Woody. If you or someone you include child development stages, family As a domestic violence prevention break the cycle of domestic violence at a know is experiencing intimate partner communication, sensible discipline, self- program, our main focus is to help those young age. With these tips for effective violence, sexual assault, or stalking care for parents and problem solving. who find themselves in an unhealthy parenting and many more, you will and would like more information, Each class also will cover skills like or abusive relationship. In these types be sure to make parenting decisions please contact House of Hope at positive encouragement, active listening, of situations, the ones affected by the with confidence when confronted 405-275-3176 or visit us online at time management and setting limits. abuse the most are the children. We with difficult situations at home. facebook.com/cpnhouseofhope. Maintaining Diabetes By Holliann Burnett, Someone diagnosed with pre-diabetes Public Information Intern is not guaranteed to develop Type 2 diabetes if they focus on losing weight, Whether intended or not, Diabetes eating healthy and staying active. Awareness Month falls right on the American calendar of large autumn What can one do to live healthier gatherings, where food, fun and festivities if they have diabetes? are the norm. These occasions can lead Taking your medication — even when to unhealthy meals and practices that can you feel good — is crucial for those increase the likelihood of preventable who have diabetes. Implementing daily diseases, like diabetes. Twice as common exercise or just finding an activity you among American Indians and Alaska enjoy doing to get you moving will Natives as the general population, almost also help those with diabetes to live 17 percent of Indigenous adults in healthier. Another vital way to live Oklahoma are diagnosed with the disease. healthy with diabetes is to eat healthy On Nov. 14, 2019, also known as World and find a diet that works for you. Diabetes Day, health and wellness professionals like those at the Citizen Where can one find support at Potawatomi Nation Diabetes Initiative CPN for those who have diabetes? encourage the public to understand one of America’s most common diseases. CPN offers the Diabetes Initiative Program to prevent amputations, kidney What is diabetes? failure, blindness and heart disease in those diagnosed with diabetes. CPN Diabetes occurs when your blood sugar Type 2 diabetes is when your body and young adults. According to the also offers a Beginning Education is too high. People with diabetes either does not use insulin properly, National Institute of Diabetes and About Diabetes class consisting of do not produce insulin, do not make which is more common. Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Type five sessions that provide information enough, or do not process it correctly. 2 diabetes, which typically occurs in about the disease and management Gestational diabetes occurs in some The most common types of diabetes middle-aged to older people, is largely tips to those recently diagnosed. For women who are pregnant. A majority are Type 1, Type 2 and gestational preventable by maintaining one’s those close to Tribal headquarters of the time, this type of diabetes near Shawnee, Oklahoma, you can diabetes. When someone has Type weight, living an active lifestyle, eating ends after pregnancy, but it does visit FireLake Wellness Center. For 1 diabetes, their pancreas does not a proper diet and not smoking. produce insulin, which is needed to cause a greater chance of developing more information about the CPN Type 2 diabetes later in life. convert food into energy for the body. What is pre-diabetes? Diabetes Initiative, visit cpn.news/ diabetesinitiative or call 405-395-9304. According to the American Diabetes Is diabetes preventable? Association, 1.25 million Pre-diabetes is when one’s blood sugar have Type 1 diabetes, and 40,000 people Type 1 diabetes is not preventable levels are higher than normal, yet not will be diagnosed with it this year. and typically occurs in children high enough to be considered diabetic. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 3 Broadband expansion in Indian Country continues to lack support from federal agencies

Prior to Congress’ most recent As the GAO report noted, “Internet recess, the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs access in the United States is generally Committee held hearings on the results privately financed. Broadband of a November 2018 Government providers build infrastructure and Accountability Office report showing sell broadband services to individual the dire situation of broadband internet consumers.” Yet, in Oklahoma especially, access in Indian Country. Senators from tribal nations like CPN try to step in both sides of the aisle criticized officials where federal, state, local and private from the U.S. Federal Communications industry have been unable to go. Commission for doing little to remove regulatory barriers to investment. In 2016, the IT Department helped build and develop Wanette Public Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Schools’ internet infrastructure. Initially Chairman John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and meaning to simply install wireless Vice Chairman Tom Udall (D-N.M.) routers on the schools’ existing internet pressed the agency for lacking clarity system, technicians quickly realized on resolutions as well as the absence restructuring the Wi-Fi network was of progress even after many Indian necessary. Abel was a part of that effort. communities around the country have identified specific proposals to the “We helped the Wanette school challenges they face in getting broadband. system improve their wireless network Oklahoma Senator James Lankford speaks during the Committee on Indian systems, which also prompted them “Tribal nations are not getting the Affairs hearing on “GAO Repor on Tribal Access to Spectrum” in September to improve their overall bandwidth broadband services they need, and they 2019. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs) availability from their ISP,” Abel want the FCC to aggressively move to said. “The CPN IT Department, along correct that,” Senator Udall said in a previously reported that tribal lands area to FireLake was ripe with business. with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation release after the hearing. “By making the can have conditions that increase the That internet service providers in the administration, decided that with the finding that broadband service is being cost of broadband deployment, such as area saw a reason to increase what Tribal members in the area, it was a good provided to all Americans, including remote areas with challenging terrain, services they could provide as well.” idea to help improve these services.” residents located on Tribal lands, in which increases construction costs, Given the slow pace of change from a ‘reasonable and timely fashion,’ as well as relatively low population Today, there are four internet service federal entities like the FEC and the the FCC has shirked its statutory densities and incomes that make it providers available at CPN’s FireLake lack of investment incentives for private obligation to take immediate action difficult to recoup deployment costs.” complex south of Shawnee, Oklahoma, industry, the only solution that may to accelerate deployment of advanced compared to a single one servicing remain is for the tribes across the telecommunications capability in rural Tribes in Oklahoma, though not as the area nearly 15 years ago. Abel says country to chip away at the bureaucratic areas like much of Indian Country.” geographically isolated as other parts of that had the Nation not grown, the the U.S., face similar challenges. Most area’s internet services would likely and regulatory mess that hinders The 2018 Government Accountability of the state’s federally recognized Native have remained as they were then. broadband access in Indian Country . nations are located in rural areas. On the Office report stated that there was a “CPN IT and the Office of Self- one hand, large enterprises like the Grand More rural parts of Pottawatomie County, 27 percent difference between Indian Governance are always looking for ways Casino Hotel & Resort and the FireLake however, do not have the same access. and non-Indian communities in terms to improve broadband infrastructure of access to broadband service. That Complex do have broadband capabilities. “There are one or possibly two internet in our jurisdiction,” Abel said. “There means an estimated 35 percent of are often programs or grants that are Americans living on tribal lands lack “When I first became employed with service providers when you begin to the CPN IT department in 2005, the look for them south of Tecumseh,” Abel available for application that deal with access to broadband services, compared broadband services in rural areas, and we to 8 percent of all Americans. internet services for the entire Tribal said. “In Wanette, AT&T is the only complex was 4.5 Mbps,” said CPN internet service provider that I am evaluate those as we discover them.” Given there are more than 500 federally Information and Technology Director aware of. If the Tribe’s presence south recognized tribal nations across the Christopher Abel. “Today, we have a 1 into the more rural areas grows and U.S., challenges serving the numerous Gbps connectivity line and are working indicates that business and population communities can vary. As the GAO on gaining a second for redundancy. is going to increase as a benefit of that report stated, “Tribal land locations The increases show the Tribe has grown expansion, we could see greater forms can range from extremely remote, and needed to improve the services of internet and telecommunication rural locations to urban areas. … We they have, but also that the surrounding services become available there.” Better journalism about Indian Country begins with local schools and education

By Graham Lee Brewer this omission also meant no discussions as team names to political coverage goals is to raise that to 2 percent over about colonization or genocide. that downplays or omits the voice of the next 10 years, something we think As a student at Norman High School in Indigenous peoples on the issues and is achievable with tribal support. the late ‘90s and early 2000s, it was easy For the past two years, I have been topics that affect us the most, there is no to feel overlooked. There weren’t many training newsrooms across the country shortage of poor and unethical coverage Journalism has long been an integral other Native kids in my classes, and I how to report ethically and responsibly of Indian Country. In fact, it often seems part of many of our tribal nations. My certainly don’t recall ever having a Native about Indian Country. From the L.A. like the rule not the exception when tribe, the Nation, has been teacher. But it was a more insidious Times to the New York Times and non-Native reporters parachute into our printing newspapers longer than both absence that troubles me most today. several NPR stations in between, I communities. And while that is changing, the Washington Post and the New have worked with everyone from cub there is still much more work to be done. York Times. Ledger artist Something I say a lot when talking reporters getting their start at a small- documented the history of the about the work we do at the Native town station to investigative journalists Until our public schools begin properly Tribe on buffalo hide, and American Journalists Association, where at some of the most prestigious retelling history or confronting the prisoners did the same on ledger paper. I am a board member, is that we are newspapers in the country. One thing ugly parts of how this country came We as tribes should inspire our Native trying in part to make up for the gross I’ve come to realize is that until we to be, we at NAJA seek to help as youth to take up this mantle, to become inadequacies of our public education start teaching Indigenous histories in many Indigenous journalists as we can journalists and be the next generation system. I recall my high school the classroom, American newsrooms get into those newsrooms, from local of our storytellers. Encouraging our Oklahoma history class began with will continue to misunderstand us. papers to national broadcasters. Studies youth to be part of NAJA’s 2 percent the , effectively erasing the have shown that less than 0.5 percent goal does more than help make coverage multitudes of Indigenous cultures that From polls at national papers that of employees in newsrooms across the predate the state. And, unsurprisingly, attempt to justify the use of racial slurs country are Indigenous. One of our Continued on page 10 4 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Grant improves 911 call center serving Pottawatomie County Citizen Potawatomi Nation operates a only two tribes in the United States Tribal police department and 911 call listed as program awardees. CPN plans center, which provides 911 services for to implement two upgrades with the most of Pottawatomie County. The call $13,200 to ensure the equipment and center serves every entity except the City employees will meet upgraded standards. of Shawnee and REACT — which have their own system — fielding 911 calls “All of the equipment we have right and dispatching emergency services, now is what you would consider including police and fire departments Next Generation 911 capable. That to surrounding rural communities. said, in order to become Next Generation compliant … some of With the advent of smartphones, them require software upgrades or technological upgrades to 911 software additional peripheral equipment and hardware are becoming an essential to be able to work,” Scott said. component of emergency response. Recently, the U.S. Department of NG911 uses modern technology to Commerce and the U.S. Department of improve response times and accuracy Transportation named CPN a recipient of information for first responders of 911 Grant Program funds, assigned with cellphone location tracking and for improvements to the county system. exchange of text messages, photos and video between operators and callers. “911 is a service upon which people’s lives depend,” said Brian Scott, grants “Both of them really are to prepare us Upgrades to the CPN 911 call center ensure its compliance coordinator for the CPNPD. “So, for a transition to Next Generation 911. with upcoming Next Generation 911 standards. anything that improves that is important.” If we are compliant when Oklahoma turns on the Next Generation 911 Agencies across Oklahoma received 911 seamless digital communication with Both CPN and Prairie Band Potawatomi system, we will be able to transition Grant Program dollars as well. Many the statewide 911 system located in Nation in Kansas received funds, the over almost immediately,” Scott said. public safety answering points (PSAPs) in downtown Oklahoma City as opposed the state need updates to comply with the to the current physical network new digital system. There is no assigned connections: essentially, analog to digital. date for a switch to IP-based technology. This ensures when the statewide system transitions to an IP-based format, the Two updates Tribal PSAP can switch along with Remaining up to date means providing it, meaning no lapse in services. the best public service to citizens in The second upgrade allows the the surrounding communities. equipment’s voice and data recorder “The other thing — and this is to accept and automatically create probably the more important aspect files of text messages and video calls, to that particular upgrade — is that an important aspect of compliance it allows us to have diversified data with NG911 standards. pathways between the PSAP and the main office downtown,” Scott said. “They’re relatively modest upgrades, but the fact that relatively modest upgrades “It significantly reduces the single get us to where we need to be is a points of failure in the system, and testament to just how much work has therefore protects the interests of been put into it already,” Scott said. the people who rely upon us.” The Citizen Potawatomi Police Department fields 911 calls and For more information about the dispatches emergency services to communities in Pottawatomie The first upgrade includes new server Citizen Potawatomi Nation Police County outside of the City of Shawnee’s jurisdiction. software used by operators. It ensures Department, visit cpn.news/police. Untreated stressors can cause physical ailments By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton For example, produced by the adrenal enough iron to allow it to produce Along with regularly baking gifts for glands atop the kidneys, cortisol is one hemoglobin. That in turn, limits the friends and family, Morris handles Student loan debt. of the hormones released as part of the production of red blood cells, which her stress through exercise. The job market. body’s acute stress response, or the “fight- means less oxygen is carried throughout or-flight” reaction. When released, it Multiple studies have shown that getting Headlines. the body leading to faster body fatigue. floods the body with glucose in order to in 150 minutes of exercise over the Pick a reason, and you have enable larger muscles to either actively Over time, the heart’s additional course of one week improves stress levels found a stressor for at least respond to a situation or evade it as burden of working harder to make up by reducing the amount of cortisol one 20 or 30-something. quickly as possible. It also inhibits the for insufficient hemoglobin can lead and adrenaline in the body. It also production of insulin, which can lead to to cardiovascular problems, including facilitates the production and release of Millennials — adults born roughly high blood sugar levels — and a higher arrhythmias and even heart failure. endorphins, a brain chemical that serves between 1982 and 1996 — and their older risk for Type 2 diabetes — if a person’s as the body’s natural mood elevator. siblings in Generation X are consistently cortisol levels are continuously elevated. Along with the potential for IBS, stress identified as more stressed out than their is known to either quash a person’s Along with exercise equipment, CPN’s parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Cortisol also narrows the body’s arteries appetite or make it spike, potentially FireLake Wellness Center offers daily in an effort to facilitate an increased heart leading to an unhealthy diet thanks aerobics classes. Similar stress-busting In a study published in 2018 by the rate and get enough oxygen through American Psychological Association, to comfort eating or binge sessions. opportunities are available through the the blood stream during that fight- urban clinics in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. participants across four generations were or-flight reaction. If a person’s body is A Creek and resident of asked to rank their stress levels in the frequently coursing with cortisol, that Oklahoma City, 35-year-old Ashley However, rather than yoga or Zumba, last month on a scale from 1 to 10 with combination of constricted arteries Morris is an older millennial. She Morris takes out her stress on an ice rink 10 meaning “a great deal of stress.” On and high blood pressure damage blood describes her life as fairly stressful with a local curling club. She said both average, millennials self-reported their vessels and speed up plaque buildup, due to her management position at the exercise and the social interaction that stress level at a 6, compared to 5.8 for thus setting the stage for a heart attack. a local cellphone store. She oversees come with curling help her decompress Generation X, 4.3 for baby boomers and four full-time employees and one 3.5 among elders born prior to 1946. Stress can also impact the body’s after a stressful day at the office. relationship with food by inhibiting part-time worker, and with the office “I’m a huge fan of team sports, and Millennials’ self-reported stress rates nutrient absorption, which over short-staffed by two positions, everyone were even higher among women and time, can lead to deficiencies and is having to pick up extra slack. curling is definitely physically LGBTQ and disabled individuals. additional health problems. challenging,” she said. “I grew up “I work in sales in a commission-based playing softball, so anything that Constantly staying stressed out For example, iron deficiency anemia, environment as a store leader,” she said. involves a strenuous workout is great. can negatively impact the body the world’s most common nutrient “It can be stressful trying to meet monthly I’m not a runner, so when it comes to across multiple systems. deficit, is when the body does not get goals while managing a team to boot.” working out, it’s curling for me.” HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 5 Invasive species management protects land for future generations Due to the destructive behavior of wild “That’s why farmers hate them is boar — accounting for more than $1.5 because they can tear up crops so to $2.5 billion in agricultural-related quickly, and because they poop and damages annually — the United States pee in the water, it contaminates the Department of Agriculture defines it as water and can make your animals an invasive species. Three miles east and and farm animals sick,” Reed said. 3 miles south of Asher, Oklahoma, on the southern end of Citizen Potawatomi CPN efforts Nation’s jurisdiction sits a round, 15-feet-radius steel-crafted feral hog For the past several years, the capturing device. The trap, overseen Tribe’s realty department has set by CPN’s Department of Real Estate up a 15-foot-radius cage trapping Services Conservation Law Enforcement system in southern Pottawatomie Officer Eric Reed, assists population County. It includes 12 panels that control efforts across the Nation. bolt together, forming two circles to manage the feral hog population. “When you come across land the hogs have been on, it looks like a They are most active on CPN land from bomb has exploded,” Reed said. fall to early spring. Before the 2019- 2020 season began, Reed set out cameras Due to policies throughout CPN’s to determine the most advantageous history in Oklahoma, like allotment, location. The Department of Real most of the Nation’s original jurisdiction CPN Conservation Officer Eric Reed investigates trails carved Estate Services operates the battery- is not owned by the Tribe. As original out by feral hogs on CPN trust land near Asher. run device and cameras via a cellphone allotments become available, CPN’s application, so finding a location with Department of Real Estate Services When his current position at the Nation they are not native to the continent ample service is key to a successful season. tries to purchase the land. The Nation became available, he applied immediately. and have no natural predators. has reclaimed thousands of acres “Every time it gets a signal, it sends us As the Nation’s conservation officer, “If you go back in history, they came a text message saying ‘motion detected throughout Pottawatomie, Oklahoma Reed checks on all CPN-owned land from Europe. They brought pigs over and Cleveland counties since the 1970s. on your camera,’ and you log into your to ensure mineral extraction is not with them, and they just let them account, pull up the camera feed, you run loose,” Reed said. “It’s gradually With more than 20 years of law polluting the area and no poaching is can see what’s in the trap. It could be occurring. He also regularly inspects grown up from there, and some was enforcement experience at CPN as a birds, turkeys; it could be deer, whatever the Nation’s feral hog trap and averages livestock or pigs getting loose.” Tribal police officer and conservation activates that sensor,” Reed said. more than 100 miles per day driving officer, Reed is proud of his work to serve Swine have a relatively short reproduction to all the Nation’s properties. Reed has a love-hate relationship with the greater community. As a citizen of the cycle at only three months, three weeks the technology that runs the trap. Since , he grew up learning Damages and three days. With an average of one to it operates through cellphone service, and the importance of respecting the land 12 piglets per litter, managing feral hog because of the rural nature of southern and its finite resources. Since childhood, Although hogs have called North populations can prove difficult. In the Pottawatomie County, a delay sometimes he dreamed of becoming a game warden. America home for hundreds of years, 1980s, the USDA estimates only 17 states had feral populations, whereas today, the happens between real-time and the species has expanded to at least 35 states. digital feed. A few seconds can mean the difference between success and failure. “Ever see what an armadillo does to your yard? They make little, tiny holes “You don’t want to use it to catch that kind of have dirt up around it. one or two pigs,” Reed said. “You Now imagine that armadillo being want 15 to 20, and it could probably about 300 pounds,” Reed said. catch up to 30 pigs at one time.” Due to their keen sense of smell, When feral hogs are active, Reed places hogs can recognize potential food corn in the center of the trap’s ring as sources up to 10 feet underground. bait. Its open design allows the swine to enter from any side of the circle. Once “They get down in and root the dirt, inside, Reed can choose to drop the taking all the roots up, and they outer ring and capture the wild hogs. can do 20 acres in a night. And it can be anywhere from an inch deep Reed hopes his work makes an impact to 4 to 5 feet deep,” he added. on this invasive specie’s population across CPN’s jurisdiction. Stay up Feral hogs also carry more than 30 to date on the Department of Real A cellphone application allows CPN employees to activate diseases and 37 parasites that can infect Estate Services’ efforts to conserve and the feral hog trap anywhere at any time. other wild animals, humans and livestock. reclaim CPN land at cpn.news/dres. 6 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Margaret Zientek named 2019 AARP Oklahoma Indian Elder honoree This year, Workforce Development but also as a leader in Tribal culture & Social Services Assistant Director and mentor. A descendant of the Margaret Zientek became the 14th Pecore family, her grandfather served Citizen Potawatomi Nation member as Tribal chairman decades ago, and named an AARP Oklahoma Indian she grew up around CPN lands. Elder honoree. Recognized for their Zientek’s brother and daughter also contribution to and sustainment of work for CPN as department heads. their tribes, 52 recipients received their awards during a banquet at the Many younger Potawatomi know her National Cowboy & Heritage as “Mama Z.” Each summer, she lives Museum in Oklahoma City on Oct. 1. with the new Potawatomi Leadership Program class and serves as their In a press release, AARP Oklahoma House Mother. Zientek teaches the State Director Sean Voskuhl said, “This 10 college students how to cultivate event celebrates a lifetime of service their Indigenous identities and become from these distinguished elders more connected to the Tribe during who have positively impacted their their intense six-week internship. community, family, tribe and nation. For some, their service is well-known She commits herself to CPN 24/7. and well-documented, but others shy Joining the over 500 AARP Oklahoma away from recognition as they quietly Indian Elder alumni is only a small exhibit devotion to their communities.” Dr. Catherine Alicia Georges, AARP National Volunteer President, Teewanna Edwards, migwetch (thank you) to Zientek. AARP OK Executive Council member and Mashell Sourjohn, AARP OK Associate After more than two decades, Zientek’s State Director Outreach present Margaret Zientek, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Her name is now listed next to labors of love vary across a wide variety with an Indian Elder Honor medallion. (Photo by: Jerry Hymer Photography) Chairman John “Rocky” Barrett and of services and purposes. She began Vice-Chairman Linda Capps as a working for CPN in 1997, searching to provide education and professional Since then, she has also fought for the few of the many deserving Citizen for a job in the area following a move assistance to Native Americans larger Native American community by Potawatomi bestowed the honor. within its service area. Developing addressing Congress and providing a back to Shawnee, Oklahoma. Serving For more information on Workforce that program from the beginning tribal perspective on the importance family and other Native Americans in the Development & Social Services, visit into the Workforce Development & of 477 programs and their impact Workforce Development & Social Services cpn.news/workforce. Read more Social Services department remains throughout the United States. She Department quickly became a career focus. about the Potawatomi Leadership one of the biggest accomplishments regularly advocates for tribal self- Program at cpn.news/plp. In the late 90s, the Tribe completed of her time with the Nation. governance and the rights of Native the certification process to administer nations to use that funding as they see fit. funds and services via the 477 program, “I believe in what I’m doing,” she which lifts some of the federal said in a Hownikan interview. “I AARP recognized Zientek for not budgetary restraints and allows CPN believe in helping people get a job.” only her contributions as an employee FOR FASTER APPROVALS & QUICKER CLOSINGS

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Many opportunities to participate plate can occur during any time of in Potawatomi culture and heritage the year, traditionally, Potawatomi exist in daily life, special occasions, believe the spirits sleep during winter. holidays and more. Nishnabé revere their ancestors, and ceremonies help “It doesn’t have to be elaborate, and it honor Potawatomi from the past. can just be something that is part of the Traditional spirit plates remember meal,” Neely said. “Perhaps you’ve made those who came before. However, like a nice meal and maybe you make an extra any ceremony, the practices vary, and dish that your grandma or grandpa liked, individual families and communities and you put that on a plate for them.” may have different approaches. While many prepare a spirit plate within “Food is a precious commodity. It keeps it specific periods after a loved one has all relevant for us, and in today’s society, passed, other instances spur Nishnabé we can sometimes take that for granted,” to honor their ancestors as well. said Justin Neely, Citizen Potawatomi “We’ve always paid a lot of attention Nation director of language. “In the to our dreams. They say if you dream past, food was very special, especially about somebody that’s passed on, it’s during wintertime when food was sparse. an indicator that maybe you should Taking a little bit of your food and make a spirit plate for them and putting it aside, it helps you remember that they are hungry,” he said. Food offers an opportunity for thankfulness and remembering Potawatomi ancestors. that you’re part of something much bigger and that there’s a connection.” Potawatomi respect food at all times, ceremony, a lot of times people will “They say that so the spirit doesn’t but during ceremony, Nishnabé people make a spirit plate,” Neely said. follow you back in,” he added. During special meals or feasts, one incorporate additional mindfulness. Potawatomi tradition that honors ances- Many Nishnabé communities One Potawatomi word for ancestor tors includes setting aside small portions “We treat it differently than a buffet,” use a jibakwe to recognize those — yankobjegen — translates to “tying from each prepared dish and placing it Neely explained. “You only take a little who take on the duties of the together” and helps symbolize the on a plate or on a piece of birch bark. bit of each because if it is ceremony, individual who passed away. deeply rooted respect Nishnabé hold for you are expected to eat everything the wisdom, direction and sacrifices of “As part of a jibakwe, or ghost supper, “With a spirit plate, you are feeding on the plate. You want to make sure they can have a seat prepared where the the generations that came before that your ancestors; you are feeding those you eat everything and don’t waste.” allow the Potawatomi to thrive today. who have passed on,” Neely explained. person would have been if they were Jibakwe alive. They might even put a dish there “Because you’re tying people together After plating the food, some will and a blanket,” he said. “Sometimes across the generations, and even the A jibakwe (ghost supper) is another offer séma (tobacco), and then set people will … invite that person to way we live our lives, everything we way Nishnabé show ancestral reverence, take on that role in their family as their it into a fire or safely outside. do, every big decision we make, we usually a year after the individual’s mother or their grandmother. They’ll think about how it’s going to affect the “If you’re going to put it out somewhere, passing, but this ceremony can also occur give them gifts and let them stand in, if don’t put it where there is a lot of traffic,” as part of the funeral or memorial service. you will, for that person, both in that next seven generations but also how it’s Neely said. “They say to never put your Regardless of time of year, sharing dinner moment but also maybe further on.” going to honor and respect the seven tobacco down somewhere that somebody together serves as the central focus. previous generations,” Neely said. “It is going to walk over it, if you can help it.” Being mindful of directions is shows that it isn’t as simple as the here “Maybe they loved liver and onions, another tradition incorporated by and now. You have to think about the In certain communities, maple water so they’d prepare liver and onions as many. For example, entering and past and remember the past while is also used. While making a spirit part of that meal. And as part of that leaving from different doors. moving forward at the same time.” Veterans report illnesses, especially those illnesses increase their skill levels and incomes common among combat Veterans.” and achieve greater self-determination. October is National Domestic “In 2017, Public Law 114-315 Violence Awareness Month expanded eligibility for participation in the SSVP and GPD programs by As noted in a recent VA press release, broadening the definition of homeless “The VA reminds Veterans nationwide to include any individual or family that VA’s Supportive Services for Veteran fleeing or attempting to flee domestic Families and Grant and Per Diem violence, dating violence, sexual assault, provide housing and other services stalking — or other situations making for Veterans experiencing domestic it dangerous to remain in the home — violence and intimate partner violence which include situations that jeopardize … Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Bozho learn more about the program. To Program will gather with internal the health and safety of children.” (Hello), partner with the MVP, Veterans can and external national partners to help Remember, the CPN Veterans use the online portal to complete the promote the department’s mission to The U.S. Department of Veterans Organization meets every month on the consent process, allow access to health foster healthy relationships and safety. Affairs has made it possible to join the records (for research purposes only), 4th Tuesday at 6 p.m. (or as soon as you Million Veteran Program online as part answer surveys about their health and “‘VA recognizes the impact domestic can get there) in the North Reunion Hall of their effort to improve the lives of lifestyle and schedule an MVP visit at a violence has on Veterans and their on the Potawatomi Powwow Grounds. veterans through health care research participating VA site to provide a blood families and is committed to raising All CPN and spouse veterans and their and innovation. Nationally, veterans are sample. The VA is currently piloting awareness about this serious problem,’ families are welcome. A meal is provided. volunteering to join with MVP to help ways to make the MVP sample collection said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. ‘We Migwetch the VA research and study how genes more convenient for Veterans who do want to remind Veterans in these tough (Thank you), affect the health of veterans. This joint not live near a participating VA site. situations they are not alone, and that effort has already resulted in a number VA is here to help them access safe, “MVP helps researchers better understand Daryl Talbot, Commander of important scientific publications stable housing and supportive services.’ [email protected] increasing the knowledge of conditions how genes affect health and illness, which 405-275-1054 that affect veterans’ health, and they may help prevent illnesses and improve “Veterans losing their housing because expect this resource to continue to treatments of disease. Research using they are fleeing domestic violence are CPN VA Representative: prove its value over the coming years. MVP data is already a part of more eligible for SSVF rapid rehousing, which Andrew Whitham than 30 VA projects, including efforts is an intervention designed to help According to a recent VA press release, focused on understanding the role of homeless Veterans and their families CPN Office Hours: 1st and “Veterans currently enrolled in VA care genes in PTSD, diabetes, cancer, heart quickly access permanent housing. The 3rd Wednesday each month can use their existing VA credentials disease and suicide. … This research is GPD program provides housing and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to securely log in to MVP Online to helping the VA to better understand supportive services to help homeless view their personalized dashboard and the role genes play in many common Veterans achieve residential stability, 918-397-2566 8 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN CPN members serve as Tribal health care providers As Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s health in Tennessee in 2017, specializing in services grow, the need for professional family medicine. She began working care providers expands as well. The Tribe for CPN afterward, spending the last now operates two clinics, an urgent two years assisting Tribal members care facility, pharmacies and an imaging and other Native Americans. Wilson center and specialty clinic. Several wanted to become part of what she CPN doctors and medical practitioners calls an “incredible organization” choose the Nation as their employer and to live close to family. to serve other Native Americans. “I was so impressed with what great quality care CPN was able to provide,” she said. Wilson’s parents worked in health care as well; however, she remains the only one of her siblings to continue into the field. “Family medicine combines my passion for science and getting to know patients,” she said. “I enjoy being able to guide patients on their health journey, helping them through their medical conditions Destiny Mitchell, APRN Crystal Marcum, APRN and also celebrating their successes Family Nurse Practitioner Family Nurse Practitioner when they have beaten a disease.” Destiny Mitchell is an advanced practice Crystal Marcum began working for Despite growing up relatively close to registered nurse and certified nurse the Tribe in 2014 as a public health CPN in , Oklahoma, Wilson practitioner. As a descendant of Therese nurse at the West Clinic. Since then, increased her involvement as an Ogee Bennett, she kept other Tribal members she returned to school and graduated family descendant since working at the forefront of her career goals. with her Master of Science in nursing at the West Clinic. She learns from from Spring Arbor University in “I have been a patient with CPNHS others daily and sees their passion Michigan in 2019. The combination of for as long as I can remember and for the community and its future, professionalism and the camaraderie of live locally and knew this would be Kassi Roselius, M.D. which she brings into her practice. the work environment attracted her to Medical Professional Director, a great place to work,” she said. nursing as a career field. She also finds Public Health Coordinator satisfaction providing “comfort and and West Clinic provider Mitchell grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, joy to patients who needed care and and graduated from Shawnee High School. compassion” during their difficult times. Vieux family descendant Dr. Kassi She received her Master of Science in nurs- Roselius attended both the University ing from Graceland University in Iowa. Originally from California, the Bergeron of North Dakota Health Sciences and Before accepting her current position, descendant and her husband moved the , graduating Mitchell worked as an intensive care unit to Shawnee, Oklahoma, to be near with her M.D. in 2012. Roselius chose and operating room nurse, taught clinical family. She described her decision medicine because it brought together rotations for Gordon Cooper Technology to work for CPN as “gratifying” and her love of science with a way to help Center and worked as the Mercy Prima- enjoys the atmosphere. The Nation’s others. CPN’s Dr. Adam Vascellaro ry Care Clinic in Stroud, Oklahoma. health care system provides a personal recruited Roselius to come work for touch throughout a wide variety the Nation in 2016. She accepted the However, she always kept an eye on of services, which makes it unique. offer as a way to care for family and open positions and joined the Tribe’s Assisting Tribal members gives her bridge a gap in health care. “What staff in October 2016. Working daily duties structure and meaning. better opportunity than to serve your “alongside excellent providers” makes own Tribal members?” she asked. the job rewarding. As part of her “They are sometimes part of the day-to-day duties, she floats between underserved population, and my work Over the last three years, Roselius watched the West and East Clinics. helps them find care,” she said. “I feel the CPN health care system grow. She that I am making a difference for my believes its continuity is one of the most Mitchell believes CPN focuses on the Tribe through helping others find Patrick Kennedye, M.D. memorable and impressive things about patients and utilizes all of its available confidence in better health through East Clinic provider it. The Nation offers medical laboratory resources to help every individual. “I am informed decisions and quality personal testing, imaging, physical therapy, Dr. Patrick Kennedye completed his very thankful to be here,” she added. interaction in clinic visits.” optometry, dental, nutritional and doctorate at the University of Oklahoma pharmacy services, all in one place, which College of Medicine in 2015. He views allows for seamlessness and transparency his career as a way to fill a void for others between departments and doctors. who require restorative attention and Throughout her time at the West Clinic, have an “impact on the whole person.” she learned serving others builds a base for He began as a staff physician at the the broader Potawatomi culture. Roselius CPN East Clinic a little more than a proudly contributes to what she describes month after completing his residency as “excellent health care services” every day. with INTEGRIS Health in June 2018. He sought out working for the Nation after receiving help throughout his education. “It was important to me to try to give back to the Tribe and pay it forward,” he said. As a Peltier descendant, he enjoys the Tribe’s intimate ambience as well as seeing familiar faces when he visits other businesses and departments. He described CPN Health Services as “the most comprehensive care system I have ever seen.” “Health care is a team effort. I see myself as a quarterback for people’s health. My job is to identify the problem Megan Wilson, M.D. and design the health care plan, but West Clinic provider the patients and I rely on so many other people to implement that plan Dr. Megan Wilson completed her and make it happen,” Kennedye said. residency at the University of Knoxville CPN provides all the pieces needed. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 9 Tribe and Chairman win REI Oklahoma Vision Award Dignitaries from across the state leadership of Chairman Barrett including former Congressman Wes helped lead to its selection for this Watkins, Cheyenne & Arapahoe Tribal year’s award. During his time in Governor Reggie Wassana and Oklahoma Tribal office, the Nation has become Department of Commerce Executive known as an innovator in utilizing Director Brent Kisling witnessed Citizen the tools at its disposal to develop Potawatomi Nation and Tribal Chairman its businesses and governmental John “Rocky” Barrett receive the Rural programs to improve local communities Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc.’s Vision in and around its jurisdiction. Award for the Tribe’s impact in the state. The Nation has experienced tremendous “We are honored to be recognized economic growth in the past two decades for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s at a rate of 15 percent annually for more contributions to the state of Oklahoma,” than 20 consecutive years. It is the largest Barrett said. “Our guiding principle is employer in Pottawatomie County by that a rising tide lifts all boats, and CPN a factor of five and has created seven has exemplified that with our $500 out of 10 new jobs in the area for the million economic impact over the years.” past decade. Its commercial enterprises Taking place in the Grand Event and Tribal government programs Center, REI’s Dream BIG Oklahoma further the success of the Nation and awards is an annual event honoring surrounding non-Native communities organizations who build, innovate by providing jobs, economic and and grow the state’s economy. The infrastructure development, and Vision Award recognizes a business or charitable contributions. corporation who has truly transitioned their dreams and visions into reality Originally founded in 1980 to enhance while enhancing Oklahoma’s economy. economic prospects in rural southeastern Tribal Chairman John “Rocky” Barrett and Vice-Chairman portions of the state, REI Oklahoma “Mr. Barrett is a visionary and is always Linda Capps accept the REI Oklahoma Vision Award. expands economic opportunities for thinking outside the box, regardless Oklahomans by providing flexible of the sector,” wrote First National dollars contributed to school systems, CPN’s advancement from humble financing and development services to Bank and Trust Co. President Larry local towns and communities, economic roots in the 1970s to the individuals, businesses and entrepreneurs Briggs. “There have been untold and Pottawatomie County.” powerhouse it is today under the with limited access to resources. Language update: November 2019

By Justin Neely, Director of the For everything you have created CPN Language Department Mine mno gishget. Bozho (Hello), And this beautiful day. We have a lot of seasonal information Ndodoskago mno below for the autumn and winter. This bmadzewen mine jitmowen time of year was very special to our We ask for good health and help. ancestors in the Great Lakes region. It will be good to put the words and Iw. phrases below to use during this time. Amen/End Along with this column is a flyer for our newly reconstituted youth choir. If Pegna (cornbread) recipe you’ve got a child between elementary Ingredients: and high school who would like to participate, please reach out to me Self-rising flour or attend one of our practices. 10 ears of corn Giwse Gises (gee o say gee sus) — November All-purpose frying oil Abto bBon gises (abtoe bbone Directions: gee sus) — December Take several ears of corn, at Agemek (ah gum kay) — Snowshoes least 10 or more. Agmose (ahg moe say) — He/ Take a canning lid and use a she walks in snowshoes nail to punch holes in it. Giwsé (gee o say) — He/she hunts Use the lid to scrape the corn from the cob into a bowl. Yabé (yah beh) — Buck Then add self-rising flour until Kche yabé ne ggi-wabma? (kchuh it’s a nice consistency. yabay nay gugee wabmah) — Did you see that big buck? Heat two or three tablespoons of oil in a skillet. Nekshe o yabé! (Nuck shay o yabay) — Look at that buck! Wait until the oil is hot, then add some of the batter. Ggi-basksowa ne? (gugee bask so Wisnewen (wees nah when) — Food Zaskokwetek pkweshgen (zahs ko kwe tuk puh kwes gen) — Fry bread wah) — Did you shoot him/her? Msezé (muh suh zeh) — Turkey Flatten the batter in the pan like a pancake. Konege (cone eh geh) — Yes Zhashagpenik (zjah shag pen Pegna (pug nah) — Traditional Cook on one side until golden brown, eek) — Mashed potatoes Native corn bread Seksi wiyas (suck see wee yas) and flip and cook the other side. Please — Venison (Deer meat) Pen (pin) — Potato (one) Short prayer of thanks note: the cornbread tends to be a little Seksi (suck see) — Deer soft in the middle, and that’s OK. Mdamen (muh dah men) Migwetch Mamogosnan Wiyas (wee yahs) — Meat — Corn (singular) This is a great dish for Thanksgiving Thank you, Creator or for a traditional meal. Watch Migwetch Gishget (meeg wech Mdamnek (muh dah men this video to learn more about geesh git) — Thanksgiving ek) — Corn (plural) Jak she gégo ga gishtoyen cooking Pegna: cpn.news/pegna. 10 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Tribal election notice for 2020 Tribal election season will soon be underway as Citizen Potawatomi Nation voters prepare to elect candidates for two Oklahoma legislative seats — Districts 9 and 12. CPN members will cast their ballots during the election on June 27, 2020, that takes place during the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Family Reunion Festival near Shawnee, Oklahoma. Candidates must be 18 years old prior to Election Day. Legislative Districts 9 and 12 are located in Oklahoma but have no geographic boundaries within the state. When applying, candidates must select one specific seat they wish to run for on their filing form. They must also have lived in that selected district for at least six months prior to Election Day. Declarations of candidacy must be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service and in the CPN Election Committee’s hands no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Request filing forms via email at [email protected] or by calling 405-275-3121 and requesting the CPN Election Committee. Applications will be available on Dec. 1, 2019. Current incumbents are District budget that manages the Nation’s CPN members who are at least 18 years 9 and 12 as well as the Tribal budget. 9’s Paul Wesselhöft and District trust earnings. No principal from the old on Election Day will be eligible CPN members around the country can 12’s Paul Schmidlkofer. fund is spent, but the budget pays to vote. All eligible Tribal citizens cast ballots for the Tribal budget. for national service projects and the living in Oklahoma can vote for each Tribal members will also vote on the executive branch of the Tribe. individual candidate for legislative seats FireLake Express Grocery donates 300 pairs of headphones to McLoud Public Schools

Citizen Potawatomi Nation continues “Someone mentioned that FireLake many Tribal members and employees to give back to communities in and Discount Foods might have them for who live in the community, McLoud around its jurisdiction in Pottawatomie a cheaper price to purchase. I am a Public Schools is a recipient of a County. Recently, McLoud Public CPN Tribal member and know many donation each quarter from Tribal Schools’ students received a donation that work at FireLake, and I thought I sales taxes collected through CPN- of 300 sets of headphones compatible might reach out to see if there could be owned enterprises. As of August with their Google Chromebooks. a possibility to help,” Greenwood said. 2019, CPN sales taxes contributed more than $6,500 to the district. The Chromebooks allow individual A few calls later, FireLake Express students to work on a wide array of McLoud Manager Jason Boyce In recent months, both McLoud fire and projects while in class, from creating was on the phone with one of his police dispatching services have been interactive assignments to research and picked up by the Pottawatomie County taking assessments. Teachers at McLoud suppliers in search of a solution. 911 authority, which serves all areas of Jr. High informed Principal Melanne “Education in this state is always in the county outside of the city of Shawnee. Greenwood that their students weren’t need of support, and one of the main able to use all the tablets’ capabilities The Nation provides funding for the 911 ways FireLake gives back is by helping due to a lack of headphones. center, saving local municipalities the teachers equip their classrooms with fees usually paid to county emergency “We spent our money on the the tools they need,” said Richard dispatch centers in other parts of technology, and then in the first Driskell, FireLake Foods director. Oklahoma. In the summer of 2019, CPN week, we realized kids weren’t able to Emergency Management officials worked access all of the functions without the He reached out to Lynco Products, to complete an emergency dispatch tower sound being on loudly,” Greenwood a vendor for FireLake, who located just north of FireLake Express said. “And most of our students did offered 300 sets of headphones, Grocery McLoud to improve coverage not own headphones of their own.” worth approximately $1,500. for the community for first responders. Seeking to solve the issue, Greenwood The relationship between the community FireLake Express McLoud Jason Boyce put out a call on her private Facebook of McLoud and Citizen Potawatomi presents McLoud Jr. High Principal Melanne page for help in securing headphones. Nation is a close one. Amongst the Greenwood with the donated headphones.

Education continued... program, a group of promising Native the country. Getting young Native am and what I could someday be. Let student journalists are brought to storytellers into mainstream newsrooms us all find ways to be that family. of Indian Country more accurate, it our annual conference, paired with a requires all of us holding each other up, also carries forward a powerful legacy professional journalist mentor and put like we have learned to do over millennia. Graham Lee Brewer is a contributing editor of truth, knowledge and time. through a weeklong training program. for Indigenous affairs at High Country Students work on stories, build interview When I think back on my high school News and a member of the Cherokee For many years now, NAJA has offered and source-gathering skills, and network self, sitting in that Oklahoma History Nation. He lives in Norman, OK. scholarships and mentor programs for with reporters, editors and newsroom class questioning whose history I was student journalists through a program managers. Native students are the least really learning, I wish I had known called the Native American Journalism likely demographic to receive college then that there was a whole family of Fellowship, which is funded by our preparation, and they represent only 1 Indigenous journalists, writers, scholars members and donations. As part of the percent of college student bodies across and leaders waiting to teach me who I HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 11 Alzheimer’s and dementia negatively influence minority populations By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton A library is available with books and DVDs on topics related to the subject, Anthony LeClaire’s eyes gave him away. including how to properly bathe and lift patients who are unable to do it on After falling at home, the Citizen their own. The library also has facilities Potawatomi Nation elder’s family moved available to view the DVDs in order him into an assisted living facility as a to avoid taking the films home and precautionary measure. Although he kept potentially triggering a patient in denial. trying to be as independent as possible, his grandson Zachary began to notice A support group has been offered that his memory was starting to slide after in the past, but as Fleeman he began to misidentify family members. noted, turnout was slim. “Eyes which were once very strong, able “Typically, caregivers don’t want to to gently peer into the deepest parts of use their limited alone time to go your soul, had started to glaze over and to those meetings,” she said. “We’re seem lost in the world around him,” the available for questions, though.” younger LeClaire said. “That was the first time he called me by the wrong name. It The department also offers a caregiver was just my older brother’s name — he’s Although some risk factors, including age and genetics, are respite program funded through a 10 years older than I am — so it could unavoidable, there are some controllable behaviors that increase the Title VI grant for families who have have just been an innocent mix up. Each chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. a loved one that needs continuous visit after, he either called me by my care. The program allows caregivers uncles’ or brothers’ names, and that was clots, skin infections and sepsis, Although Zachary LeClaire is unsure if to schedule someone regularly to when I knew things weren’t clicking right. which can trigger organ failure. his grandfather was formally diagnosed come in for an hour or two for up to with Alzheimer’s, his eventual need for Since 1983, the United States observes three months at a time to stay with a “Each time before that he would see me, continuous care and gradual memory loss November as Alzheimer’s Awareness dementia patient and give the primary he’d get that spark in his eye, recognize reaching the point it disrupted his daily Month. Domestically, 5.8 million caregiver a chance to take a brief break. who I was, mix up the name, pause routine are consistent with its symptoms. Americans live with Alzheimer’s for a second, then correct himself. “You get to choose who you want to Dementia, or roughly one in every 10 Other frequent signs of the disease There was a spark behind the glaze adults older than age 65. It is the sixth come in,” Fleeman said. “Especially with in his eyes that let me know he knew include the inability to retrace one’s Alzheimer’s patients, it is important to leading cause of death nationwide. No steps, withdrawing from work or who I was, but my name wouldn’t cure currently exists, with available choose a caregiver that they know so they come to his mind immediately.” social activities, regularly showing won’t be even more confused or scared.” medications only treating the symptoms. poor judgment or decision-making Dementia is an umbrella term to refer to According to a study published by the skills, losing track of the day or Due to federal funding restrictions, the multiple conditions that develop when Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated season, or frequently struggling to caregiver respite program is only available the brain’s nerve cells die or stop working 65,000 Oklahomans currently live with complete a familiar, regular task, for residents of Pottawatomie County, properly, thus causing memory problems. the disease, but that number is projected such as driving to the grocery store as well as portions of Oklahoma and to grow by 16.9 percent by 2025. or taking daily medication. McClain Counties. Families outside Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the the Tribe’s service area can reach out to more prominent forms of dementia, Although the data regarding dementia in The Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s their local chapter of the Alzheimer’s accounting for an estimated two-thirds Indian Country is scarce, what concrete Elder Services program offers Association or the closest Agency on of the diagnoses. Dementia caused by the information that is available suggests resources for Native families with Aging for resources in their area. degenerative disease is characterized by that Indigenous elders are at higher a loved one dealing with one of distinct, noticeable changes in a person’s risk. According to a study published the various forms of dementia. Anthony LeClaire died in 2015 at age behavior, thinking patterns and memory. in 2016, American Indian and Alaska 88. Although his wit remained sharp, Alzheimer’s patients may be able to live Native elders have higher Dementia “People will keep them home as long as keeping loved ones’ names and faces safely and independently in the disease’s incidence rates than their Latino, Pacific they can — sometimes longer than they straight was difficult at best at the end. early stages, but as it progresses, they Islander, white and Asian American peers, should,” Senior Support Coordinator require more and more assistance. with 22 cases for every 1,000 elders. Tami Fleeman said. “Our goal with “The last time I visited him, I didn’t see the program is to keep them in home that same spark,” Zachary LeClaire In the disease’s final stage, Alzheimer’s As one of the first studies to look at as long as possible while safe. We try said. “He called me by my uncle’s patients are often bed-ridden thanks dementia in minority populations, to help do that, but there does come name, but it was obvious he thought to damage to the parts of the brain it tracked 274,283 people aged 64 a time when either the caregiver can’t he was talking to my uncle. That involved in movement. That makes or older over the course of 13 years, do it or the person gets to a point crushed me, but it told me everything I them more susceptible to blood including 21,000 Indigenous elders. where they can’t be taken care of.” needed to know. He was spiraling.” 12 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Managing the varying layers of stress

Stress manifests itself both mentally whether that includes a yoga class, cardio, and physically, effecting everyone in water aerobics, running or boxing. some form. This year, the International Stress Management Association “It’s because they’ve got a lot of stress, and recognizes International Stress now, they start their day off right. They Awareness Week Nov. 4 through 8. come in here. They have a good attitude when they go to work, and their exercise Citizen Potawatomi Nation Behavioral is out of way, and their stress level Health Department psychologist seems to be less by the end,” she said. Shannon Beach, Ph.D., described a stressor as “anything that you Both Dr. Beach and Lawerance recognize spend time worrying about.” individuals’ differences, and Dr. Beach sometimes recommends charity work to “I don’t know that we necessarily think help patients focus on the task at hand. about something as stress until we’ve spent more time worrying about it “We’re getting involved in something that than we think is reasonable,” he said. helps take our minds away from these He also separates stress and anxiety future-oriented worries and putting as something manageable versus us in the present with activities that something treatable, respectively. are helping,” he said. “It has a definite altruistic component but also something FireLake Wellness Center personal that we do to help ourselves as well.” trainer Sarah Lawerance sees clients dealing with burdens on a daily basis. Both recommend journaling as a means to clear the mind by creating a to-do “Everything seems to be faster paced, list or scratching out worries and trials more stressed in general,” she said. on a piece of paper. Dr. Beach always “When they come in, our first thing relationships as well as cause overeating “Coming from a mindfulness perspective, carries around a tiny notebook. is we got to figure out what their and mental exhaustion. Each person that’s what everything’s really about is goals are.” However, reducing those experiences stress and manages it finding that way to balance things so “With each of those notebooks, when I pressures often does not appear as one in a unique way. Relieving some that we can get everything done and open it up, on the first page I write the of their top three reasons for coming of it requires purposeful action. then focusing on the present,” he said. same question. And every one says, ‘How can I learn from this?’ I think really to the gym, outranked by weight loss, being able to ask ourselves that question building muscle mass and more. “Everybody goes through peaks “We all need to know how to recognize and valleys with stress and life, but what’s going on in ourselves that we regardless of what happened to us today According to Dr. Beach, worries about with exercise, nutrition, and your need to try to use some introspection.” … can really be helpful in demonstrating finances and school are some of the health as a whole, it has to be a what we’ve been through throughout most common stressors addressed in lifestyle change,” Lawerance said. Exercising forces people to concentrate the day that we don’t necessarily counseling, along with relationships, on the moment as well as achieve a think about sometimes,” he said. Lawerance enjoys helping clients find familial issues, and work. He said in healthy tiredness for a better night’s sleep. a comfortable way to reduce body On difficult days, switching up exercise modern society, people often adjust Lawerance believes everyone benefits tension and improve their day-to-day or stress management routines brings to living with a high level of pressure from 30 to 45 minutes of cardio a few well-being. She says physical activity the focus back to the present along over time without realizing it. days a week and emphasizes breathing plays an important role in recovery. and stretching as a way to calm down. with the need for concentration. “When we’re more self-aware, I think Lawerance calls it “flipping the script.” “Our body is not like a car. With a “Slow down, take a breath, look at that’s really helpful in knowing how “I think we get wrapped up in car, you can be on empty, and you can the situation and take care of you,” to start setting those limits, knowing still go a hundred miles an hour,” she life in general. ... We’re trying to she said. “Because most of the time how to set boundaries, and knowing said. “Your body is like a stair step. control everything,” she said. you’re taking care of somebody else. what the stressors are that we’re going You don’t get one night of sleep, your If you’re not taking care of yourself through,” Dr. Beach said. “A lot of times stress level is high. So, your body just “All you can control is yourself and stressors become stressors because we starts stair-stepping in the downward first, you’re not going to be able to the things in your environment.” don’t really realize everything that’s going spiral instead of in a positive way.” take care of your grandkids, your kids, on until multiple things start piling up.” your nieces, nephews, your parents For more information about CPN’s Combating tension or whatever the case may be.” Behavioral Health services, visit cpn. Some common ways they manifest news/bh. FireLake Wellness Center is themselves physically include muscle Focusing on the present circumvents Consistent exercise and stress reduction open Monday through Thursday, 5 tension, shortness of breath, weight worry about the future and puts complement each other. Lawerance’s a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.; fluctuation, hair loss, heightened things in perspective. Dr. Beach clients report reduced tension, improved Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon; and closed blood glucose levels and trouble encourages patients to develop their mood and a lighter emotional weight Sundays. Visit cpn.news/wellness to see a sleeping. Emotionally, it can strain self-awareness and establish limits. after beginning a routine at the gym, list of classes and contact information. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 13 CPN’s Kateri Phillips crowned Miss Potawatomi Each year at Potawatomi Gathering, the Hownikan, she said it was neat to back representative of the Nishnabé women 13 to 19 years old from meet others her age who work with birch people. Beaded pink flowers and across the Potawatomi tribes in North bark, bead earrings and make baskets. green vines cover the bottom and America compete for the title of Miss sides on a background of tan hide Potawatomi. They answer interview “It’s really cool to hear … they do leather. Kateri and her family questions, display their traditional dance the same things that I’m doing,” she decided its uniqueness fits her. skills and show off one of their many said. “Another girl, she was talking talents. The Wasauksing First Nation at about doing language classes and “I think it looks like me. I honestly Parry Sound in Ontario, Canada, held how she’s the only person her age thought, ‘I see myself in it,’” she this year’s contest at the end of July. sometimes in some of these language said. “I love (the flowers) so much. classes, and I go through that too.” I actually have done little designs Citizen Potawatomi Nation member and similar to how it looks, and so I Rhodd and Vieux family descendant Kateri started playing and writing music resonate really high with this crown.” Kateri Phillips won the 2019 crown. At at 12 years old, and it quickly became 18 years old, she competed a couple of a passion of hers. For the talent portion And with it comes responsibilities. Kateri months after graduating from Bethel of the competition, she played and plans to continue learning the language High School in Bethel, Oklahoma. sang an original song, Indigo Skies. She and participating in cultural practices said it flowed out of her one day. and classes. She calls it all “a way of life.” “I get to represent our people, which is Besides public appearances at powwows so amazing to me because that’s always “I just felt a heavy inspiration, so I just and representing Potawatomi people such a strong part of my identity is picked up my guitar did a few chords, every day, she is also working with being Potawatomi. I’m many other and the lyrics just started coming. And Native Justice Coalition Founder and tribes, but I was always raised with I was writing them down, and then I Executive Director Cecelia LaPointe. Potawatomi ideals and the language, Eighteen-year-old Kateri Phillips had a song before I knew it,” she said. and so there’s nothing else that I really “I realized that I wrote my story, and I “We’re planning on me talking at schools embraces the title and crown of and stuff like that and doing little resonate with but with Potawatomi,” 2019 Miss Potawatomi. wanted to share it with other people.” she said. “To be able to represent our workshops and stuff to raise awareness for people, it’s surreal and such an honor.” Kristy also told her about the sense After watching everyone’s talents, racial justice,” Kateri said. “And I want of pride and accomplishment she felt the judges deliberated. Kateri wore to incorporate the crown into that too, Family support from their family. Kateri became more a bright yellow dress with her hair as Miss Potawatomi. We’re really excited involved in school activities and their in two long black braids as they about that. And we’re making some The honor runs in the family; community, eventually feeling bold announced her Miss Potawatomi plans right now, and I’m really stoked.” judges named Kateri’s older sister, enough to enter Miss Potawatomi. and placed the crown on her head. Kristy, Miss Potawatomi during As Kateri steps foot into adulthood as Gathering 1999. She pushed Kateri “They really pushed me to be more “I was so happy when I won. I was just Miss Potawatomi, she remembers not to compete while they watched it at confident and outgoing, and crying. I was such a wreck,” Kateri many people can claim the honor. Gathering a couple of years ago. said and laughed. “I didn’t think talk to more people. I’m really “I’m really happy and proud appreciative for that,” Kateri said. I was ever going to win, really.” “I never thought I’d be able to have the that they chose me to represent confidence to go out there and dance Competing The crown our people for this year.” in front of people and show a talent or anything like that. But I wanted that, Kateri became friends with the other The 2019 design features the year’s Find the latest information on Potawatomi and so I decided that I was going to push contestants while they worked toward Gathering logo in the center — a Gathering at cpn.news/gathering. myself and do more things,” Kateri said. the same goal. During an interview with green-shelled turtle with a fire on its Show and tell-the importance of values By Darian Young, are often taught through the actions of Teaching youth about values, as anything, children, especially teens, is another Family Preservation Coordinator others. One of the best ways, therefore, will look different depending on the important aspect in successfully to teach youth is through show and tell. child’s age and personality. Modeling encouraging healthy values. Taking Youth today are presented with a wide values to younger children, along with the time to truly listen to children variety of values which are modeled If parents and caregivers are able to strategies like praise to encourage and working to prioritize healthy to them from every direction. Social show, or model, and tell, or verbalize, wanted behavior, can influence the communication within the family can media influencers, movies, games, songs, the values they hold in high regard, values children develop. As children allow teenagers to be more open minded religious institutions and communities as children are more likely to allow those mature, using clarifying questions to in accepting or adopting positive values well as friends, family members and more lessons to take root within their own teach abstract ideas works well. For of their own. Nurturing good values in all possess the opportunity to impact life. When the show matches the example, if you are wanting to teach your others does not always look identical to youth as they decide who they want to tell, and actions back up words, the school-aged child selflessness, asking our own values, which is okay as long become in this world. The challenge chance of influence is even greater. the following questions can assist in as we operate with the overall idea that then lies in two parts: first, do adults deepening his/her understanding: Why the ultimate goal is to encourage healthy today have an accurate understanding of It is therefore important to have an do you think it is important to help and positive values, even if those values what their own values are, and second, honest and accurate grasp of the values other people? Are there times when you are not a mirror image of our own. how do we ensure positive and healthy we hold so that we are able to send values are instilled within today’s youth? believe it is okay to focus on your needs Children are the future, and much of clear messages to those around us. As a before others? What would your school parent, values can seem to conflict with what is poured into them and modeled Elizabeth Crary, seasoned author and look like if no one helped anyone else? one another at times, so it is even more to them while they are young help longtime parent educator, defines vital that we know what we value and Storytelling is also a powerful and determine who they then become. Let’s values as “the beliefs or attitudes that agree to build up a healthy generation prioritize. For example, you might desire respected tool in teaching and has been motivate people. They are the concepts who know what they value. Let’s your child be both independent and neat; used by individuals, specifically within each person feels are important for teach with our words, model with both positive values in and of themselves. Native communities, for generations. himself and possibly for humanity as our actions and provide children Although, when the situation arises where Telling stories to better explain and a whole. For a value to be truly yours, opportunities to strengthen their values. you must act on it — not just verbalize your young child attempts to exert his demonstrate the importance of values it or think that you should follow independence and pour himself a glass of can be structured in a variety of ways. If your family has experienced it” (Without Spanking or Spoiling). juice, making a mess in the process, what Personal stories of triumphs or mistakes, child abuse or neglect or you might Values, therefore, are comparable to do you decide in that moment is most family stories that have been passed be at risk, please contact Family a life compass; they guide and help important — independence or neatness? down generation to generation, stories Preservation at 405-878-4831 or visit determine the paths chosen throughout involving well-known tribal leaders us on Facebook @CPNFirelodge to Being honest with ourselves and clear one’s life while providing clarity and or role models within the community, learn more about our program. strengthening self-esteem and resilience. about our own values is the first step stories involving modern-day celebrities in passing along healthy values to the and even superheroes can motivate The values we hold can easily be seen next generation. Additionally, being children to adopt values such as honesty, from the outside; how we choose to on the same page with a spouse or bravery, altruism, confidence and more. spend our energy, time and money highly co-parent and deciding together what reflect what we value most. Additionally, values to pour the most effort into is Having open, honest and non- children are excellent observers and essential in presenting a unified front. judgmental communication with 14 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Hownikan founder, CPN Elder Beverly Hughes walks on In late September, CPN Elder Beverly have, that isn’t always possible now. But Hughes walked on. Ms. Hughes was a is is his goal to accomplish that before former governmental official, serving he leaves office. We aren’t the richest as Secretary-Treasurer for the Tribal Tribe, but we will get there. And when government where she produced the first we do, we will be able to help everyone edition of the Hownikan. Her decades of regardless of where they are,” said Hughes. service and dedication to the Nation will be sorely missed. Though her obituary Though retired, she still attends Tribal can be found in this paper’s ‘Walking On’ functions and is a mainstay at the CPN section, we wanted to share an article Eagle Aviary, which is managed by her about Ms. Hughes from 2013 that chron- two granddaughters, Jennifer Randell and icles her experiences as a Tribal member Bree Dunham. As the person responsible and elected official in a time of transi- for the paying out of the Tribe’s last per tion for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. capita payment in 1981, she explained why she thought the ending of payments Tribal elder Beverly Hughes and moving toward the Tribe’s current reflects on her past work for strategy of reinvesting money into health Citizen Potawatomi Nation care, commercial enterprises, education and social services was a good idea. Citizen Potawatomi Nation is Beverly Hughes taking phone calls during her tenure as Secretary- Pottawatomie County’s largest employer Treasurer of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in the 1970s “Our old payments were repayments for with an economic impact of more land taken from our ancestors in the than $500 million and has come a from then on we tried to produce it every some materials and came up with the Great Lakes region,” explained Hughes. long way from the days when Tribal quarter to keep our members informed.” first seal we’d ever had,” said Hughes. services were conducted by volunteers In the 1970s, the Tribe hired lawyers and run out of an old trailer. The 1970s were a time of increased In a later meeting, a BIA staffer explained who assessed the value of those lands independence for Native American tribes the need to get a consistent spelling of at the time of their transfer from the Amongst many others who worked for across the country. For the first time in the Tribe’s name. For years, confusion Potawatomi to the U.S. government. the Nation before and after the landmark centuries, the rights of self-governance had reigned over the multiple spellings, The subsequent settlement on behalf of 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Edu- were given to the tribes themselves, albeit the two most popular of which were the federal government in the 1970s as cation Assistance Act, Tribal elder Beverly with oversight still in the hands of the ‘Potawatomi’ and ‘Pottawatomie.’ compensation was paid out to surviving Hughes witnessed the changes firsthand. U.S. Bureau of Indian affairs. Tribes, Potawatomi Tribal members. Hughes Elected Secretary-Treasurer in 1970, she “They said they were going to spell it the who had always been sovereign entities, oversaw the final distribution of that served on the five-person Business Coun- same as the county,” recalled Hughes, finally had the independence to act in sum and pointed out the interest on that “but I told them that we were separate cil, then the Tribe’s governing body. the interests of their members. These from the county. We were an entity unto total is now used to fund the Health changes also saw the establishment of Her primary work was serving the Tribe ourselves, so we made it Potawatomi.” Aids Foundation and scholarships. to get contact information for members cultural aspects that had been neglected “A few years ago, I ran into a Tribal mem- in order to get out the per capita payment under BIA oversight. For the Citizen Hughes eventually left the Business from the government. To accomplish Potawatomi Nation, the duty of codifying Council, and retired from Tinker Air ber who asked me when we were getting this, Hughes secured a $25,000 federal the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s proper Force base after nearly 20 years of service. our next payment. He’d just had heart sur- grant to fund the outreach effort. The spelling and designing a tribal seal Looking back over her time working gery and in his hand was a bag of prescrip- result of this was the publishing of fell to Secretary-Treasurer Hughes. for the Tribe, some of it spent as a tions from our Tribal pharmacy. I asked the very first edition of the Hownikan, volunteer, the Bruno-Rhodd-Bourbonais him how much he thought his surgery and which was printed on a Community “We had an intertribal meeting for the descendant is excited for the future medicine would have cost if he’d had to Health Representative’s Xerox machine. tribes in the Shawnee area (Iowa, Sac of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. pay for it himself. He looked at me aston- & Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Kickapoo ished and admitted, ‘Beverly, I hadn’t even “All I was trying to do was give people and Citizen Potawatomi), and our “I know going way back, Chairman Barrett thought about that. I am so grateful for an update on what we were doing and chairman at the time needed a tribal wanted every member to have the benefits the Tribe because I’d never have been able what services we provided,” explained seal and flag for the meeting. So we and services we provide wherever they to pay for this.’ I looked at him and said, Hughes. “It seemed pretty popular, so talked about it, I went out and bought lived. With as many members that we ‘That is why it’s better to reinvest it.’” Project inspires CPN member to learn more about her heritage

By Marisa Mohi But the internal cultural identity that And so sometimes I wonder if my family enables me to feel like I’m a part of history is just out of reach, something I don’t often tell people I’m a writer, at the community? I don’t have that. I can research and eventually come least not when they first meet me. It’s an to know. Do I experience anxiety just occupation that’s too full of expectations. I don’t think I’m alone in this. I know because of my brain chemicals? Or was They want to know if they can find my that many of you reading this probably anxiety a reaction from an ancestor’s brain books at their bookstore. (Not yet.) feel this way. And when you also factor chemicals that developed during the Trail They want to know where I’ve been the other ethnic identities that we carry, it of Death? Is this anxiety something that’s published. (Lots of places.) They want to leads to a growing sense of disconnection been passed down from them, like trauma know more about the stories I’m telling. and a lack of belonging. My dad is from that has been encoded on my DNA? Iran, and my mom’s dad is from Mexico. But what if I don’t know myself? And sometimes when I think about it But I’m still hopeful. The answers are too long, I can feel this ghost-like shape there. A doctor may ask about your See, I’ve been working on a novel for inside me that makes up my identity being family history to help determine a the past 12 years. It’s taken a long time torn apart and pulled to the places it’s diagnosis. And as a writer, I need to reach to figure out what I’m trying to say, and supposed to be from. It’s like my home back into that history to tell the real story. it’s taken even longer to get the sort in Norman, Oklahoma, is so far away of life experience you have to have in from everything, like parts of my spirit One of my goals for 2020 is to research order to actually tell a story. Every day, find themselves shaking their head and my heritage. There is so much Tribal I chip away at the story — sometimes wondering how we ever ended up here. Marisa Mohi information preserved and available to adding words, sometimes editing, me, and it’s time I figure out where I fit sometimes reshaping the story, and Or maybe it’s that I’m so far away My disconnection with the Tribe is in all of it. The experiences I have and the sometimes taking it in new directions. from knowing who I am. not a symptom of the Indian Removal research I do — I’ll be writing about it Act – it’s part of the design. We were here in the Hownikan. From genealogical But try as I might, I’m running Every culture I belong to, I only see intended to abandon this identity. After records to classes at the Cultural Heritage into a hole in the story. Only, it’s through an outsider’s lens. The whole centuries of separation from families Center, I’ll be sharing my search for my not in the novel. It’s in my life. story isn’t displayed. There are scenes and familiar places, how could any identity as well as ways that you can missing, details omitted and loose ends of us feel any sense of belonging? find out more about who you are too. I’m a member of the Citizen Potawatomi left undone. The official record taught Nation, but I don’t know what that in classrooms would have us believe As a writer, I have to wonder how I Marisa Mohi is a member of the Na- means. At least, not in a meaningful that Oklahoma was a completely empty can make a reader empathize with deau family and is a writer and writing way. I have my Tribal ID card, and patch of land that settlers got to race for. a protagonist when I can’t even instructor at the University of Oklaho- I’ve seen the Cultural Heritage And when Oklahoma elementary school empathize with myself. I have to ma. You can follow her on Facebook or Center. I read the Hownikan, and I students re-enact the Land Run of 1889 remember to look for those missing Twitter @themarisamohi. Her writing follow the Tribe on social media. every spring, we are the details omitted. scenes to find myself, again and again. can be found at marisamohi.com. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 15 Roger Greenwalt utilizes new knowledge to build community One of Tribal member Roger “Most people come to church because Greenwalt’s favorite quotes is, “If somebody invited them, not because you’re not living on the edge, you’re they saw a poster or a Facebook ad or a taking up too much space.” billboard,” he said. “They come because somebody personally invited them, and The Bergeron family descendant began people will more likely come to a home serving at CrossPointe Church in group for the first time than they will Fontana, California, in 2009. As the come to a service at a church building.” executive pastor, Greenwalt oversees small groups, known as Life Groups. He For Greenwalt, the successful graduated with his doctorate of ministry implementation of his plans and in May 2019 from Gateway Seminary seeing others’ growth firsthand makes in Ontario, California, at the age of 57. his doctoral experience worth it. He describes himself as a “big picture “I am committed to serving the Lord, guy” who enjoys a challenge. and he’s called me to spread the gospel of Jesus. And so, if this reaches people “I don’t play it dangerous, but I don’t in a better and faster way, that’s what play it safe either. I’m willing to Bergeron family descendant Roger Greenwalt celebrates his graduation with his excites me. It gives hope,” he said. try things other people think are doctorate of ministry from Gateway Seminary with his family. (Photo provided.) crazy, like getting my doctorate in CrossPointe plans to move to a new my late 50s,” he said and laughed. to do all this. I have a full-time job. I group growth at his church during location in the northern section of town have a family. I haven’t been in school the final two years of his doctorate and reach out to families moving into Greenwalt found out about the Citizen for over 30 years,’” Greenwalt said. project. Before his new methods, the surrounding neighborhoods currently Potawatomi Nation Department approximately 30 church members under construction. However, Greenwalt of Education scholarship while After further self-reflection, he participated. Within three months, that does not look for any extra praise or reading the Hownikan at the same says he found strength in God. number more than doubled to 70. new title that comes with his schooling. time his children started college. “For the first time in my life, I started When the time felt right for him to He believes the assembly’s growth “Some people ask me, ‘What do we call enjoying doing research and studying return to school, he applied, too. as a whole begins in the small you now? Do we call you Dr. Greenwalt?’ because I was able to do it well, and groups, which he hopes continue No, that’s still too weird to me,” he said. “I wouldn’t have done this without I gave it my best,” Greenwalt said. to multiply. Initial interactions with “I’m just Roger. I’m just a regular guy.” the Potawatomi,” Greenwalt said. neighbors in a relaxed environment He finished his program with the cut down on the intimidation many For more information on CPN “It’s not just giving people a handout; it’s highest GPA of his life, and his age people feel when setting foot into a Education Department scholarships, giving them a hand up so that we can positively influenced the experience. become better, so that we can achieve place of worship for the first time. visit cpn.news/cpneducation. more. And I am so proud of the way the “When I studied, when I read the Potawatomi use their funds for this.” books, I wasn’t just skim reading to get the grade. I was studying and Serving God reading to learn,” Greenwalt said. “And that was the major difference. I was The youngest of seven children, doing it for my growth and the impact Greenwalt decided to become a on our church, and that made it all pastor at age 16. His father served as worthwhile. That was the satisfaction.” one, and at first, Greenwalt hesitated to follow in his dad’s footsteps. When asked how graduating felt after four years of classes and projects, he “Everybody would always ask me, ‘Are replied, “One word: awesome.” you going to be a pastor like your dad?’ And I’d say, ‘No, that’s not how Starting small Join us in celebrating God calls people. You don’t do it National Adoption Month because your father did it. You don’t During his doctoral program at Gateway do it because you want to do it. You Seminary, Greenwalt chose to focus do it because God calls you,’” he said on a leadership track. He learned in a recent Hownikan interview. new methods of communication and approaches to creating and Free After high school, Greenwalt attended attracting participants to community F ml  i  h California Baptist University in organizations. His dissertation revolved hosted by firelodge children and family services Riverside, California, earning a bachelor’s around developing small groups that degree in religion. Later, he received connect people on an individual a master’s of divinity at Gateway level, eventually leading to attendance Seminary. Afterward, he served at with the larger congregation. w t  nt  a ‡ ¢! several churches throughout the years. “Life Groups provide a family N  ®5 Citizen Potawatomi Nation A few years ago, Greenwalt and his atmosphere; it’s genuine relationships, Cultural Heritage Center wife discussed selling their home to because in our culture, especially at 6PM 1899 S Gordon Cooper Drive live on their sailboat and minister to in America, we’ve become more people as they traveled. Those plans isolated as people,” Greenwalt said. faded, and he continued in his current position at CrossPointe Church, “What these home groups do is allow n u e gv  s where he became comfortable. us to have deep relationships with people because we were created by “My wife told me, ‘Roger, you need a God to have relationships with each new challenge in your life. You need other, genuine relationships.” something to go for. It seems like you’re just coasting right now.’ She was right During the first half of his program, — I had been living off the knowledge Greenwalt established practices for use and research that I had done 30 years in small group sessions to build helpful prior, like being in a cocoon of old relationships. Long-lasting connections knowledge, old methods,” he said. that passed beyond surface greetings in For more information the worship center became the goal. It was time to return to school; c    e   d   ( 0)78- 81 however, he last attended class in his “I’ve learned to design the home groups  edrl w e@ o  t ‡  20s. As a pastor, he prefers surrounding to include elements such as asking himself with people rather than everybody to share a high or a low secluding himself in an office to study. from their week because that helps Throughout the process of becoming a us get to know each other,” he said. student, nervousness came and went. CrossPointe is a smaller parish with “I was talking to the Lord one night, and approximately 100 attendees. Greenwalt I said, ‘God, I don’t have enough time implemented his ideas for small 16 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN Returning to traditions may aid efforts to combat California’s white sage population decline

The four medicines — séma (tobacco), for harvest late summer, but keep in mind, kishki (cedar), wabshkebyek (sage) and removing plants and objects from protect- wishkpemishkos (sweet grass) — hold ed land is illegal. Also, avoid fields and extreme importance with Nishnabé roadsides where chemical use is prevalent. and other Native Americans. However, the wide use of one popular species “Don’t gather under power lines or of sage native to California has anywhere near power lines because negative ecological consequences. they get sprayed regularly, and there is about a 10-yard buffer,” DeerInWater “California sage cannot handle said. Also, forage only when in a everybody’s spiritual needs,” said Kaya good mood to avoid introducing DeerInWater, Citizen Potawatomi Nation negativity into the plants picked. community garden assistant. “California white sage population is in a decline, but “I usually won’t harvest more than one- third of a patch,” he said. “Basically, because of a shift that has taken place, don’t take it all. That’s part of our people really only associate sage with the philosophy as Indigenous folks white sage from California: Salvia apiana.” Different sage varieties exist across Turtle Island, and finding locally and Nishnabé folks as well.” grown, native species can help support conservation. Before ceremony and in daily practice, Shopping for regional sage at a local Potawatomi use wabshkebyek to purify. “It’s not like people are going, offering Ways to help nursery provides another option as “There is science behind it that actually séma (tobacco) and trimming,” well as transplanting from the wild. says sage does clean. It kills bacteria,” DeerInWater said. “It’s more like “It’s about education. Mistakes happen. That is how it goes, but it is what you “Find somewhere it grows and offer DeerInWater said. “It is a spiritual, poaching — wholesale poaching. Teams séma (tobacco), or whatever protocol sacred plant and a sacred medicine.” of people are ripping up all shrubs out do after the mistakes and how you react that makes the difference,” DeerInWater you follow, ask for permission, let of the ground, then throw them in the plant know what your intentions Retail implications dumpsters and cart them back to sell.” explained. “I’m not trying to shame people for using California white sage are for harvesting it, and then dig Most sage bundles sold in stores Cutting all leaves and stems above because most people don’t know the it up and take it home,” he said. and online came from a four to five- the soil keeps new California white difference, and that’s not their fault.” For those living in or visiting Oklahoma, county radius in coastal Southern sage plants from developing. the Bodewadmi Widoktadwen Gtegan DeerInWater encourages Tribal members California. Before westward expansion (Potawatomi Community Garden) has a “Harvesting can be good, but obviously, to find local suppliers, or at the very and the development of roads and select number of sage plants — species trade routes, people relied on the too much harvest is bad, and there least, investigate where and how the Artemisia ludoviciana — that is native to medicines native to their areas and is a technique for every plant; and product is cultivated and harvested. the area. Earlier in 2019, staff and vol- were not dependent upon one species. everything that you do, there is a way unteers dug and potted for the benefit of that is beneficial and a way that is not “Know where your sage comes from,” “The Sierra Mountains are huge. Getting DeerInWater said. “It’s not something CPN members. DeerInWater encourages beneficial,” DeerInWater said. “The those interested to stop by the garden. trade routes over into Nevada just way the current system is for California to be taken lightly, but it’s also not wasn’t worth it,” DeerInWater said. white sage is not beneficial at all.” something that we should take super “It’s about respect – respect for segmekwé, “It’s not like if you had a horse and seriously. Don’t get so serious you can’t our Mother Earth. If we know that buggy that you were going to travel The growing population and urbanization laugh at yourself, but if you have the something is hurtful, then obviously, and get a whole bundle full of sage of California’s countryside also has luxury to do something about it, do it.” we shouldn’t do it,” DeerInWater said. and carry that everywhere you were; negative implications on availability “We traditionally view plants as our you’d just get the sage that you had.” as well as wildfires and mudslides. Foraging native, local medicines is another relatives and kin. You wouldn’t hurt your way to take conservation efforts a step grandma purposefully, so why would Rather than incorporating traditional “Simply put, it is not a good situation, further. The United States Department you hurt the plants purposefully?” gathering techniques, industrial and many Native folks from California of Agriculture’s plant database serves as a approaches include harvesting entire have voiced their concern. They’ve resource to learn about vegetation found Learn more about Bodewadmi hillsides and large acreages at a asked Native people and Indigenous across the United States down to a coun- Widoktadwen Gtegan events and time to meet customer demands. folks to find their own sage,” he said. ty-by-county level. Sage is usually ready workshops at cpn.news/events. Kasie Nichols recognized at Woman of the Year awards Longtime Tribal employee and current siblings, including carrying the worries success is a testament to her efforts over Director of the Citizen Potawatomi and stress that those roles brought. the past 10 years of service to CPN Nation Self-Governance Department, and tribal self-governance as a whole.” Kasie Nichols was honored in October at “My circumstances did not define the Journal Record’s Woman of the Year me, though, and I intended to use my A credit to her success is due in large part reception. She was one of 50 selected intelligence and determination to prove to her diverse professional background. for the event that honors Oklahoma it,” Nichols said. “My first goal was Her medical research training and work women who make a difference in to graduate from high school. While prior to coming to CPN are reflected their jobs and communities. that may be a given for most, I was the in her office’s work with federal grant only one in my family who achieved minutiae, while her broad experience “The Office of Self-Governance is a vital this milestone. I did not stop there.” assists in the work of a tribal employer position for an Indian tribe,” said CPN involved in a wide array of sectors. Vice-Chairman Linda Capps. “Kasie She earned a bachelor’s of biological strives to be an effective resource for health sciences from Southeastern In accordance with her day-to-day work, CPN as a tribal nation to help pursue Oklahoma State University and she is involved in several federal-tribal self-governance in order to increase a master’s of microbiology and partnerships with the Indian Health our government’s control and decision- immunology from the University of Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs. making authority over Tribal programs. Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has served as a member of the She has wide-spread expertise, especially federal Tribal Self-Governance Advisory in assisting Indian Health Service Nichols started with the Nation in Committee and Contract Support Cost Programs … that is when Kasie shines 2010 as a grants analyst in the Self- workgroup. Previously, she’s been a even brighter and is indispensable in Governance Department, ascending grant panelist for the Administration for her role as director of Self-Governance.” to several positions there before being Native Americans Social and Economic named director in 2017. The department Development Strategies, a team member Growing up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, supports funding opportunities for Kasie Nichols for PeopleSoft Grants Implementation Nichols watched her single mother work Tribal government-run programs in Pre-Award Transition and a chairman of three jobs and still struggle to pay rent health care, criminal justice, social of often cumbersome federal funding the OU Cancer Institute/Sarah Cannon and bills. The family often relied on services and a host of other sectors. processes second to none,” said Mickey Research Institute Phase’s clinical government assistance and housing, and Peercy, Executive Director of Self- research collaboration committee. as the eldest child, Nichols often had to “In working with her, I have found Governance for the Choctaw Nation of fill the role of caregiver for her younger Kasie’s understanding of the nuances Oklahoma. “Her employer’s continued HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 17 Tribal Chairman – John “Rocky” Barrett Attorney General Hunter never of the state or court order confident that we can handle honestly facing conditions got to present his entire slide following the effective date this. There is no need to be in our country today. This presentation because several of this compact, the compact afraid. We have all seen this great Nation will endure as it tribal leaders refused to allow the shall automatically renew kind of tactic in Washington has endured, will revive and session to continue until a clear for successive additional for over three years, except will prosper. So, first of all, and definitive statement by the fifteen-year terms; provided with a different approach; one let me assert my firm belief state of Oklahoma was made that , within one hundred that benefits from the echo that the only thing we have to that a “dispute,” as described eighty (180) days of the chamber of social media. He’s fear is fear itself — nameless, in the compact, existed. When expiration of this compact or created an entire climate of fear unreasoning, unjustified the attorney general resisted any renewal thereof, either through this constant social terror which paralyzes needed a clear answer, several tribal the tribe or the state, acting media work that then creates a efforts to convert retreat into leaders moved to adjourn. With through the Governor, may feedback loop. He tweets. The advance. In every dark hour of temperatures rising in the room, request to renegotiate the media writes about it. Cable our national life a leadership I finally asked him to point out terms of subsection A and E TV has a panel that takes it of frankness and vigor has the specific wording that he of Part 11 of this Compact.” seriously. When he pumps alarm met with that understanding Bozho nikan felt created the refusal of the into the system, it lingers. and support of the people (Hello, my friend), state to honor their agreement. That’s it. We are not the themselves which is essential He refused. Since I cannot see “organization licensee,” We have been working under to victory. I am convinced ecently I had the unique any reason the state will not racetracks are. Since the Tribe’s this agreement for 15 years. that you will again give Rexperience of participating recognize renewal, except bad compact was signed, the State Longer, I believe, than the that support to leadership as one of 32 elected tribal faith, I will provide you with the of Oklahoma has continued governor’s high interest in these critical days.” leaders in a meeting with Mike actual language of the renewal to authorize the “organization mortgage business has existed. President Franklin Hunter, the attorney general clause and let you try to figure licensee” (horse tracks) to We do not fear the state. Truth Delano Roosevelt of the state of Oklahoma. The out what they are up to: conduct electronic gaming from is, a very great man said it best purpose of the meeting was 2005 right up to the present day. about 85 years ago on the day of Thank you for the honor of to allow Attorney General “PART 15. DURATION We have not requested that the his inauguration as president: serving as your Tribal Chairman. Hunter to present Governor AND NEGOTIATION governor renegotiate the compact. Kevin Stitt’s reasoning behind Everything happened as it “I am certain that my fellow B. This compact shall have Americans expect that on my Migwetch denying to recognize the renewal should. Now you can see why (Thank you), clause of our gaming compact a term which shall expire on we are baffled by the governor’s induction into the Presidency signed some 15 years ago. January 1, 2020, and at that money grab. There is no basis in I will address them with John “Rocky” Barrett time, if organization licensees the agreement for his demands. a candor and a decision Keweoge The meeting was held at the or others are authorized to which the present situation (He Leads Them Home) Grand Casino Hotel Resort with conduct electronic gaming Many of you have called and of our Nation impels. This Tribal Chairman the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in any form other than expressed fear that the state is is preeminently the time to acting as host. Governor Bill pari-mutuel wagering on trying to bankrupt us or cripple speak the truth, the whole Anoatubby of the live horse racing pursuant our ability to continue to grow truth, frankly and boldly. Nation and I initiated questions. to any governmental action and provide opportunity. Be Nor need we shrink from

Vice-Chairman – Linda Capps attractive to college graduates at roughly the same level since the year 2000, but the statistics above show that our highly educated Oklahomans have been leaving in recent years. The article reveals that net outflow followed a period from 2008 to 2012 when Oklahoma had positive or flat net domestic migration of college graduates each year. The largest net inflow was recorded for 2010, when more than 3,000 college graduates moved into Oklahoma Bozho than those that moved out. The (Hello), concern is between 2013 and ccording to an article 2017, which is the largest net Ain the fall 2019 Federal outflow of college graduates Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s from Oklahoma since 1999. The Te n magazine, there has been fact that college graduates are a trend of Oklahoma college leaving the state of Oklahoma graduates moving out of our is partially due to the lack state since 2013. The average of higher paying jobs. net outflow from 2013 to 2017 There are good jobs in During more modern times, I Perhaps our own CPN I want to give this article a has been more than 5,300 manufacturing, including saw the service industry taking can someday play a part side twist by citing the Citizen college graduates per year. information technology in helping to decrease the Potawatomi Nation’s endeavors hold of America. As you look Although this represents less managers, security and systems Oklahoma brain drain. with our Iron Horse Industry around, you will observe that than 0.2 percent of the state’s support. Additionally, there Park. Through years of hard the service industry is well and population, it accounts for more are operations and human alive. The same is true of our For further resources, read full work in construction, research Oklahoma Economist articles than a half a percent of the resource managers as well own Tribe. Even though there and marketing by numerous at kansascityfed.org/research. population with college degrees. as mechanical engineers, can certainly be success with That number is greater than the individuals within CPN, Iron to mention a few. As CPN service businesses, I still have Migwetch annual number of bachelor’s Horse is now the location where attracts more industry to Iron Pro-Pipe USA LLC will be in a desire to be affiliated with (Thank you), degrees granted at either the Horse, there will be a variety manufacturing. That wish is University of Oklahoma or operation later in 2020 (as you of employment possibilities. have read on the front-page now coming true for CPN. The Linda Capps Oklahoma State University. Segenakwe story of this newspaper). I am As a young person, I witnessed idea of the process of converting (Black Bird Woman) The information is found within confident that Pro-Pipe is only the fact that manufacturing raw materials, components or Vice-Chairman the article A Closer Look at the beginning of companies that parts into finished goods that was a sound basis for the 405-275-3121 work Oklahoma’s “Brain Drain”. To will conduct manufacturing at meet a customer’s expectations development of the economy. 405-650-1238 cell read it online, visit cpn.news/ Iron Horse during the next five is exciting to me. It brings After all, manufacturing was [email protected] fedbrain. Although the findings to 10 years. It is my aspiration still flourishing throughout joy to my heart to know point out some concerning that some of our local college my experience during the that manufacturing is finally trends for Oklahoma recently, graduates that might otherwise 1960s to the 1980s — a going to materialize at CPN. there were positive statistics leave Oklahoma can find jobs continuation of what America Our Tribe will soon be in the until 2013. Oklahoma was with CPN’s own industrial park. knew after World War II. manufacturing business! 18 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN District 2 – Eva Marie Carney citizen Lakota Pochedley. For those of you on Facebook, get ready to post a photo of your mkesinen when Lyle Simmons, the administrator for the private Citizen Potawatomi Nation Facebook group, puts out his traditional call for mkesinen photos — he’ll ask group members to cast their votes and award a prize to the person whose mkesinen get the most “likes.”

National Native American Veterans Memorial Bozho nikanek Groundbreaking Ceremony (Hello friends), Chi migwetch (a big thank you) Upcoming Fall Feast to Chairman Barrett and Vice- Chairman Capps for allowing lease get your RSVPs to me to be one of the handful of Legislator Roy Slavin or P folks representing the Nation to me for the Districts 1 and at the moving memorial 2 Fall Feast, set for Saturday, groundbreaking ceremony for Nov. 23, 2019, from 10 to 2:30 the Native veterans’ memorial, p.m., in Arlington, Virginia. We held on Sept. 21, 2019. need your responses by Friday, • During World War Harvey Pratt, a Marine Corps Nov. 15, 2019, to ensure we II, over 44,000 Native have enough supplies. Bring Vietnam veteran and citizen Americans served in the a dish to share if you are able. of the Cheyenne and U.S. military. Hundreds of Children are very welcome Tribes of Oklahoma, designed , , and at the feast and to participate, the memorial, which will other Native language with a parent or grandparent, be completed next year and speakers, called Code Talkers, in the craft instruction. We dedicated in Washington D.C. played a crucial role. hope you’ll wear mkesinen on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2020. • Today, the U.S. Department (). To top off our Fall Pratt’s memorial design is of Defense estimates more Feast celebration, there will be described by the National than 24,000 American CPN-themed giveaways and a Museum of the American Indian and Alaska Native prize for best mkesinen, awarded Indian as “a place of peaceful men and women are on by vote of everyone attending. contemplation where people active duty, and more #RockYourMocs can come together. It will stand than 150,000 veterans Week 2019 in the museum’s landscape, self-identify as American overlooking the wetlands and Indian or Alaska Native. During Nov. 9 -16, 2019, within sight of the U.S. Capitol. participate in #RockYourMocs At its center, a ring of stainless Migwetch (thank you) to all steel will rest on a carved stone CPN members pose with Harvey Phillip Pratt during National who are currently serving in Week 2019 by wearing your Native American Veterans Memorial groundbreaking. mkesinen wherever you are in symbolic of a drum, over which the U.S. military, to all our the world and wherever your water will flow. There will Other Citizen Potawatomi the first woman to fly as an veterans and to all family day takes you to celebrate be benches for gatherings, a attending the groundbreaking Airborne Intel Officer on the members of service members our ancestors and culture. No central fire lit for ceremonies ceremony were CPN Legislators EC-130 Airborne Battlefield and veterans. We are in your debt. I am looking forward mkesinen? Photo-illustrated and holidays, and four lances and veterans Jon Boursaw/ Command and Control Center. to joining some of you for instructions on making where people can tie prayer Wetase Mkoh and Dave Barrett/ She directed intelligence, traditional Potawatomi pucker cloths.” Brief news coverage Mnedobe and CPN veteran the memorial dedication next targeting and electronic combat Veterans Day and to gathering toe mkesinen are available at of the groundbreaking, which Kimberly Pratt/Idwe gishek. coordination activities aboard includes Mr. Pratt’s explanation with fellow Citizen Potawatomi cpn.news/mocguide, courtesy I’ve included a photo of all of the ABCCC. Kim also was the of how the decision was made on the memorial benches of CPN District 2 citizen us with Harvey Pratt, taken first Squadron Commander of Lyle Simmons. A YouTube to site the memorial in a around future ceremonial fires. after the ceremony. Hearing the 139th Intel Squadron at Fort instructional video is available particular spot on the grounds Congresswoman Debra Gordon, Georgia, and served Migwetch (thank you); at cpn.news/mocvideo, courtesy of the National Museum of the Haaland’s emotional remarks let me hear from you of our Cultural Heritage American Indian, is available as the Chief of the Reserves about her father’s military at NGA. She retired from the Center staff, including CPN at cpn.news/vetmemorial. service was, for me, the best Air Force Reserves in 2013 Migwetch (thank you) for among the many highlights with the rank of Colonel. I’ve allowing me to serve you. If you of the morning — it was so included a photo of Kim being have questions, comments or powerful to have a Native ideas to share with me, I hope interviewed by NPR after the woman leader’s words, tears and you will do so through email, groundbreaking ceremony. gratitude heard and witnessed phone or letter. It’s my pleasure at that time and place. You may enjoy visiting to share time with fellow Citizen NMAI’s website (cpn.news/ Potawatomi. Kindest regards I had hoped to share with and bama pi (until later), you clips from the interview nmaimemorial) periodically Kimberly Pratt gave to a NPR for updates on the memorial’s Eva Marie Carney reporter after the ceremony, construction. It currently Ojindiskwe (Blue Bird Woman) but it has not aired to date. I’ll includes a series of facts about Representative, District 2 share it once it is put online. Native American service 2200 N. George Mason Drive For now, let me brag on Kim in the U.S. Armed Forces PO Box #7307 a moment. She is an Air Force that were shared during the Arlington, VA 22207 Academy graduate, with a 30- groundbreaking ceremony: 866-961-6988 toll-free year military career — nine [email protected] years of active duty and 21 years • Native Americans have evamariecarney.com in the reserve. Most recently, served in the U.S. Armed she was part of the National Forces in every major Geospatial-Intelligence Agency military conflict since the in Springfield, Virginia. She Revolutionary War and in currently is employed at the greater numbers per capita NPR interviews Kim Chatfield Pratt at groundbreaking event. Pentagon as a civilian. Kim was than any other ethnic group. Legislators are not able to retrieve your contact information from Tribal Rolls Please contact your legislator and update your contact details so that you can receive important information. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 19 District 3 – Bob Whistler the (Creek) Nation, who was instrumental in getting the last Saturday of September recognized as Native American Day, spoke about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Brian and his mother in concert with the American Indian Heritage Day of ambassadors held their annual event at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 28. The Nation was recognized, and since they were the ones to Bozho do the original , (Hello), there were several dancers in September happenings attendance performing that dance. T-shirts recognizing ur usual third quarter MMIW were sold. There Olegislative meeting was were two versions: the Hopi deferred to September to give woman and the ribbon skirt. A staff as well as the legislators third T-shirt recognizing the adequate time for preparation Ponca Nation was also sold. and review of the 2019-2020 The evening before the Lone Star exhibit on Montezuma meets for so-called “questioning.” In Supreme Court ruling. We have annual budget. The total budget Park event, I attended a meeting Hernán Cortés on 11-8-1519. many cases, the police are many wonderful police officers came in just short of half a at the Latino Cultural Center There was also a display on looking to solve a situation serving our community, and this billion dollars ($426,589,769). located at 2600 Live Oak St., Mesoamerican foods. If you quickly, and the first person they information is not intended to Staff did a great job in the Dallas, TX 75204. Mary Lyons, are in the area, it may well be talk to becomes their primary imply or say they try to convict justification for the numbers a spiritual leader of the worth your time to visit this suspect. You must gather your innocent people. Generally, it resulting in very few questions. tribe from Minnesota, spoke facility to learn more about the thoughts and think, “I must be is the other way around. We It was approved unanimously. about “Shades of Red” and Indigenous peoples of Mexico. sure I don’t say something that incriminate ourselves by not They suffered even harsher The University of North Texas how they were impacted by the is going to cause me harm.” watching what we say and do. treatment than our nations in Denton held a Native loss of their lands and forced by the Spanish conquerors. Keep in mind that until they District 3 meeting American meeting on Sept. 9. movement. She also spoke about the four basic natural elements actually place you under arrest, The director of the Myaamia that are needed by us (air, water, The events by colleges continued they do not need to read you We will hold a district meeting Center from Miami University earth and fire) and how humans into October when I attended your Miranda rights. Moreover, on Saturday, Dec. 14, in Corpus in Oxford, Ohio, attended are negatively impacting them. a meeting at Texas Christian anything you say can and will Christi from 10:30 a.m. to 2 and spoke about how more For example, in Brazil, a major University. We had a guest be used against you. In the show p.m. at the Hawthorne Suites successful the Myaamia tribal segment of a forest that provides speaker from Arizona cover that I saw that was about a real by Wyndham. (Address: 1442 students are in graduating from much of the conversion of how the Mayans and Aztecs person, they were a juvenile and South Padre Island Dr, Corpus college when they also speak carbon dioxide back to oxygen used plants for medicinal as under pressure admitted that Christi, TX 78416. Phone: 361- their Myaamia language. I used by most of the world is well as ceremonial purposes. they were guilty. In addition, 854-3400) Lunch will be served. find this very interesting since being destroyed. I found her She included a type of tobacco they did not ask for an attorney, Announcement cards are being that they use that has a very Texas will be getting more presentation very informative. and their parents were allowed sent out. Please RSVP by calling small leaf as well as flowers. It and more immigrants over the to come meet with them in the me at 817-229-6271 or by email next 30 years, and it is in our is very different from the broad In regard to the Latino Cultural interrogation room. Since no to [email protected]. own youths’ benefit to become Center, it is a good museum leaf tobacco we use for our request for an attorney had been bilingual. We should get them worthy of a visit to learn about ceremonies. It was interesting made, the conversation held I look forward to seeing speaking both the Potawatomi our neighbor, Mexico. They that in their culture there between the parents and their you. In the meantime, if you language and Spanish in have information on the Maya, are plants that are handled child was taken and used in have any questions or issues mainly by men and others addition to their English. At this Toltec, Mexica, Aztec, Zapoltec court against them. This is legal, regarding the Nation where exclusively by the women. same meeting, Brian Larney of and Olmec nations. There is an and it is your responsibility to I may assist, please give me a Innocent convicted understand what is going on. call. I am honored and proud to serve as your representative. In one of my readings along First, ask if you are under arrest, with a special on TV, many and if they say no, then tell Bama pi innocent individuals are them you are leaving and if you (Until later), convicted of felonies each year. can’t leave that you want an In fact, there are over 10,000 attorney. Second, never answer Bob Whistler individuals who are innocent any question without having Bmashi (He Soars) and sent to prison each year. an attorney present to ensure Representative, District 3 Even if you are innocent but you do not incriminate yourself. 112 Bedford Road, Suite 116 convicted, it may take years to Most of us think of the police as Bedford, TX 76022 get you released. In my readings being here to protect us. While 817-282-0868 office and in the show I saw, it became many times they in fact serve 817-229-6271 cell apparent that too many of us that purpose, their main job 817-545-1507 home don’t really know how to react if is to enforce the law and solve [email protected] MMIW T-shirts. we are taken to a police station crimes, a fact affirmed by a U.S. [email protected] 20 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN District 4 – Jon Boursaw Force retiree Kimberly Pratt. In International Special Olympics, addition to the witnessing the of which the Nation was the groundbreaking ceremony, we major supporter. As a result, the had the opportunity to hear CPN Color Guard was invited comments from the Secretary of to present the colors. After we Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie, finished and while we were Representative Debra Haaland standing with the colors on both from , the Director sides, Harvey fired the arrow. of the NMAI Kevin Gover and Harvey and I had few laughs the designer of the Veterans about that event. I saw him late Memorial Harvey Pratt. But that afternoon at our hotel, and probably more memorable were he told me that he had been the brief interactions I had showing the picture and telling with the memorial’s Director the story all afternoon. The Color Kevin Gover and Harvey Pratt. Guard at that event consisted of While having breakfast that my brother, Lyman; Roy Slavin, Bozho was available to us prior to the District 1 Representative; the (Hello), ceremony, Gover stopped by our late Terry Peltier; and myself. table and introduced himself. Status of the CPN Exhibit in the Jon Boursaw at the NMAI Exhibit. Burnett’s Mound Exhibit During the conversation, I asked him if he had ever visited our National Museum of the American Indian the past eight or nine years. I’ve the Senior Support Network am pleased to report that Cultural Heritage Center, and given it in an open-sided tent staff, are listed below. The he replied that he had before the final production-ready Following the groundbreaking in the Flint Hills, at numerous potlucks begin at noon in the I the flood. He went on to say copy of the exhibit has been ceremony, I toured the museum, churches, at universities and CPN Community Center in how impressed he was of the provided to the company that and on the fourth floor, I was grade schools, a barn, museums, Rossville. You are asked to bring Tribal Veterans Wall of Honor. will manufacture the exhibit pleasantly surprised to discover American Legion Posts and the a side dish or dessert. Tracy panels. I have contacted the Immediately following the that CPN is still featured as list goes on; but for the first time, has asked that you RSVP if Shawnee County Parks & you plan on attending, and ceremony, I made a point of part of a large exhibit describing I recently gave a version of it in Recreation Department, and her number is 785-584-6171. introducing myself to Harvey the treaties and removals that an outpatient operating room. depending on the production took place in the early to mid- A couple of weeks ago, I was Pratt. I gave him a copy of Nov. 8 — Thanksgiving Feast time of the finished panels, we 1800s. The primary topic of the scheduled for surgery to have a photograph of him having just with turkey and dressing are all hopeful that the exhibit CPN portion of the exhibit is small cancerous spot removed can be installed this fall. I want fired a flaming arrow down the the Potawatomi Trail of Death. from the side of my nose. In my to give a very special thank center aisle of the conference Dec. 13 — Christmas pre-op office visit with the plastic you to Graphic Designer Trey room in the Cox Center in Dinner with roast beef Dale Smith Memorial Fund surgeon who performed the DeLonais from CPN’s Public Oklahoma City to light the and mashed potatoes Special Olympics Torch. I Dale’s obituary appeared in the procedure, he noticed my name Information Department for his As always, it is my pleasure attached the photo to this September Hownikan, and in and asked, “That’s a French name, outstanding work in creating to serve as your legislative column taken in 2008 at the the last paragraph, it asked that isn’t it?” I said yes and gave him the physical outlay of the panels, representative. complete with photos, maps opening of the International in lieu of flowers, donations and a very brief explanation of my Association of Law Enforcement family heritage. His response was, and narratives. The exhibit will other memorials be made to Migwetch Officers Conference for the “I’m a history enthusiast, and I’m consist of three 3-by-5-foot the Dale Smith Memorial Fund (Thank you), panels that will tell the history that will then be donated to the going to keep you awake during of the Citizen Potawatomi CPN Eagle Aviary. Dale and I the procedure so you can tell me Jon Boursaw, Nation and the life of Abram became good friends over the your Tribe’s history.” A week later, Wetase Mkoh (Brave Bear) Burnett. The exhibit will not be past few years, and it was my I gave him an abbreviated version Representative, District 4 at the top of the mound, as you honor of give him a Potawatomi of the history while watching 2007 SW Gage Blvd. can no longer drive to the top, name, Kno notagzet (Screaming him work on the side of my nose. Topeka, KS 66604 but rather at the park’s entrance. Eagle). Dale was a proud CPN Relax; I didn’t feel a thing. I recall 785-861-7272 office veteran, having served with the that I was surprised by how thin 785-608-1982 cell National Native American 101st Airborne in Vietnam. I had the surgical thread was that he [email protected] Veterans Memorial the privilege of recognizing Dale used. From my viewpoint, it Office hours: Groundbreaking Ceremony as the CPN Honored Veteran appeared to be the thickness of 9-11 a.m. Tuesdays at the 2018 Family Reunion a spider web thread. I guess my 3-5 p.m. Thursdays In late September, I was proud Festival Powwow Grand Entry. motto could be, “Have Story, Other times: please call and honored to be asked to Please submit your donations to Will Tell It Anywhere, Anytime.” attend this ceremony at the the Garnand Funeral Home, 412 National Museum of the 7th St, Garden City, KS 67846. November and December American Indian in Washington, Elders Potlucks in Rossville D.C., along with fellow CPN History Presentation legislators Eva Marie Carney The scheduled dates for the and David Barrett, a Navy Harvey Pratt fires a flaming I’ve given my CPN History November and December Vietnam veteran, and fellow Air arrow at the Cox Center. Presentation dozens of time over Elders Potlucks, sponsored by

District 5 – Gene Lambert out there questioning your to agree, but can love. Focus success story, as is the story of Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, ability to get through some on a happy time you shared. the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Pojoaque, Sandia, San of those difficulties from time Agree to disagree. Then go and the varied communities Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa to time, especially during on, and be grateful for the with Potawatomi people. Ana, Santa Clara, Santo the holidays. We all do. learning experience and the Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, past moments of pleasure. We shared Pueblo food, visited Zuni, Cochiti and Jemez. Keep your attention toward their museum, heard the stories the priorities and allow some In Native land, we have certainly and watched the dancers, They made us feel special of the antagonistic rhetoric seen trials and tribulations. On which they shared that day and took care of us to pass, and it will with little the other side, we now have and every day at 11 a.m. and while we were there. thought. Stay in the moment! the promise of a strong future. 2 p.m. outside the museum. That future holds education, Our agenda included where We have the holiday coming growth and independence, while “Pueblo” is a Spanish term we are today at home in up for Thanksgiving, and it maintaining our heritage. meaning “village” or “town.” Oklahoma, benefits of having should be exactly that. Start now This word is used both to a tribal identification card, and think of all the things for Recently, the Citizen describe a style of building housing grants, education, which to be thankful. Our loved Potawatomi Nation District 5 (adobe-and-stone pueblo) and pharmacy and the Indian Bozho ones are always a great start. had the opportunity to visit the to refer to specific groups of Health Services provisions (Hello), Pueblo people in New Mexico. American Indians who live available to all Native people in The holidays can be difficult for They were one of the few tribes in pueblos and come from the United States of America. t’s a wonderful life, even some with broken or at least able to keep and stay on their an agricultural tradition. Iwith all the challenges stressed family ties. Sometimes land right up to today. There The day was filled with presented on a daily basis. I you have to love from a distance are 19 tribal divisions within The 19 tribes include: Acoma, education, personally know there are many of you and know you do not have the Pueblos. This is another Isleta, Laguna, Nambe, beneficial, and entertainment HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 21 as we enjoyed the day. It is always good to see family. The youngest CPN tribal member attending was Manuel D Neves, III, 47 years old. He and his mother, Deanna LeClair Neves, drove from Cortez, , to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the meeting. Their family name is Rhodd- LeClair. Manny is married to Deanna Seymour Neves. He has two children, Maxihikio and Wannassita Neves at 17 and 15 years of age. They live in Washington D.C.

Maxihikio, by the way, has Gene with youngest member received the Student Peace Manuel D Neves, III. Award through the Indigenous Student Union Club. Quite legal residence is in Edgewood, Farthest traveled, Cecelia a remarkable young man. New Mexico. Cecelia is a Arnet with Gene. retired engineer and presently Deanna Neves was the wisest teaching in Saigon. USA is Venturing out for dinner, I member at 80 years of age. her home, but she came all saw a place called the Laguna Burger also owned and operated Deanna has been active for the way from Saigon, Vietnam, Gene with wisest member Deanna Neves. a long time. She has been where she had flown in for the by the Pueblos, and thought attending various district meeting and other business. I might as well try one. It was joking when I said it was the Enjoy your holidays, meetings as she lives in the definitely the best burger I have best I have ever had. It was! Four Corners region. I have While in New Mexico, I ever had. You could say the Eunice Imogene Lambert known and visited with this observed there are many pepper competition they have The Thanksgiving turkey is Butterfly Woman wonderful lady many times Pueblos handling the businesses ongoing between New Mexico second to none. Enjoy your Representative, District 5 during Arizona meetings as well. on reservation land as we do and Colorado has gotten a family dinner, and remember 270 E Hunt Highway, Ste 229 The distance is now too far for at CPN. As a matter of fact, little out of hand. However, the the Creator who has gifted us San Tan Valley, AZ 85143 her to travel as the years pass. the hotel in which I stayed Laguna Burger had those very all things. Say thank you. 480-228-6569 was owned and operated by peppers (worth fighting over) [email protected] The farthest distance traveled the Pueblos. They also have presented in a juicy Black Angus Wish I had a table large was Cecelia Arnet, another quite an extended stay property burger that would tantalize enough for you all. I do not, impressive CPN member whose being built as we speak. anyone’s taste buds. I was not but I have a heart that is!

District 7 – Mark Johnson 2019. Please email the following log in at any time to check on been passed down through the you may need to access Tribal information to graduation@ the application’s status. One generations. That is how we benefits that may be available potawatomi.org, and they will be scholarship is available to you truly keep our Tribe alive. It is to you. Please also take the announced in a following issue each semester: $2,000 for full- what our Tribal nation is built time to give me a call or send of the Hownikan. Submissions time students and $750 for on: the collective history that we me an email with your contact are due by December 15th. part-time students. Students all bring to the table. It is easy to information so that I can keep are also reminded that you have overlook that fact when, today, you informed of the happenings • Full name advising, scholarship help and our lives seem to get busier and within the Nation and district. • Hometown internship support available busier every year. Please make Migwetch to you through the CPN sure that you take time to pass • Potawatomi family name (Thank you), Education Department. More down the stories to our younger • Degree type/major information and the online generation. That might be the Mark Johnson, • School or college name application can be found at greatest gift you can give. Wisk Mtek (Strong as a Tree) cpn.news/education. You can Representative, District 7 For those of you still in college also contact them by email at Once again, I would like to 1565 Shaw Ave., Suite 202 Bozho nikanek or getting ready to start, the [email protected] or say what an honor it is to Clovis, CA 93611 (Hello friends), scholarship program application by phone at 405-275-3121. serve you as your District 7 559-351-0078 cell period for the spring 2020 representative. As always, give [email protected] t is again time to get your fall semester opens on Nov. 15, As we enter the holiday season, me a call, and I will be happy to Igraduation announcements 2019, and closes on Feb. 15, I hope you all have a chance work with you on any questions in for anyone graduating high 2020. Applications are now to gather your family around you may have or provide you school or college in December submitted online, and you can and tell the stories that have with additional information 22 NOVEMBER 2019 HOWNIKAN District 8 – Dave Carney

Bozho nikan (Hello friend), Also, we will have a dessert drum group that meets regularly t’s hard to believe that it is table for treats any Tribal to practice both hand drums and John Kochanowski, Julie Jackson and Bob White in regalia. the holiday season already, members would like to make a powwow drum — all of their I their names at our gathering: Dave Carney but here we are! I am currently and share with the group. own creation. They played several Jacqueline Mitchell, George Kagasghi (Raven) planning our District 8 annual songs, including the (Cherokee) Mitchell Fuller, Owen Mitchell Representative, District 8 Fall Feast. This year, it is a In mid-September, I had the Morning Song — sung in and Jeremiah Mitchell. It 520 Lilly Road, Building 1 midday event in Seattle. If you honor of giving several members Potawatomi. Additionally, our was a special morning. Olympia, WA 98506 can make the event, please also their Potawatomi name. We host Julie Jackson lead the 360-259-4027 consider making some artwork gathered at a member’s home opening prayer in Potawatomi. As always, it is my [email protected] for our Native American-themed in Woodburn, Oregon, on a honor to serve you. art contest! Show off your beautiful fall day. Several of the Along with Julie Jackson, talent and your Native pride. members attending and involved several members of the Melot Migwetch You might even win a prize! in the ceremony belong to a local founding family received (Thank you),

District 10 – David Barrett Quoting from a press release about it’s opening, “The curvilinear and domed museum is on the National Mall, having opened on Sept. 21, 2004. The 250,000-square foot structure is clad in Kasota limestone and is surrounded by an eastern lowland landscape amid numerous water features. Special features of the museum, such as an east-facing entrance, a prism window and the 120-foot high Potomac space devoted to contemporary Native Bozho performances, are a direct (Hello), results of extensive consultations with Native peoples. n September, I was able to “The National Museum of the visit Washington D.C. for a I American Indian building is groundbreaking for the National November serves as a great opportunity to remember those who have located on a 4.25-acre site served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Native American Veterans Me- east of the National Air and morial. First, I want to describe Space Museum and just south million for exhibitions, public where the groundbreaking took of the U.S. Capitol. The programs, and opening events. place. The National Museum of construction cost of the mall the American Indian is situated museum was $199 million, “The museum has an exterior in front of the U.S. Capitol. with an additional $20 cladding of Kasota dolomitic

David Barrett, Jon Boursaw and Eva Carney at the Officials participate in groundbreaking event. National Native American Veterans Memorial. HOWNIKAN NOVEMBER 2019 23 limestone from Minnesota, Davis (Provost, Smithsonian enduring and attending this groundbreaking giving the building the Institution), Harvey Pratt distinguished ceremony for the Native appearance of a stratified stone (Memorial Designer), the service of Americans Veterans Memorial, mass that has been carved by Honorable Jefferson Keel the Native I had to pause and remain still, wind and water; additional (Advisory committee co-chair Americans in just allowing myself to reflect building materials include National Native American every branch on the tremendous sacrifices American-mist granite, copper, Veterans Memorial), a blessing of the U.S. that our nation had to endure bronze, maple, adzed, cedar, from Tipiziwin Tolman Armed Forces. (and be given) for our freedom. adzed alder and imperial plaster. and T Tolman, then the This memorial Freedom is not free! groundbreaking. After the carries “Acrylic prisms facing true south groundbreaking by placing the the heavy Since this is the month catch the sun’s rays and reflect shovels in the dirt, the ceremony responsibility of Thanksgiving, I would a spectacular light spectrum concluded with an Honor of respectfully encourage you to thank a onto the interior of the Potomac, Song by the Cheyenne and acknowledging veteran, active duty service animating the space and serving Arapaho Singers Drum Group. the most visible design elements American members or first responders. relating to the sun and light. With the description of the Indian, Alaska Happy Thanksgiving! NMAI’s architecture, it is so Native, and It goes without saying, thank “Forty large rocks and boulders, fitting for the theme of the Native you for allowing me to represent known as grandfather rocks, are memorial by Mr. Harvey Hawaiian you and our great Nation. at the site and incorporated Pratt (designer) to design this veterans; raising in the landscape and serve as awareness memorial on its ground, a Migwetch reminders of the longevity of of their place that draws nearly 24 (Thank you), Native peoples’ relationships million visitors annually. service across to the environment.” generation; David Barrett Again, quoting a release about National Museum of the American Indian - and reminding Mnedobe (Sits with Spirit) The groundbreaking ceremony the memoria, “(It) is an elevated Photo by Raulbot, Wikipedia Commons all Americans Representative, District 10 started with the presentation stainless steel circle balanced of our 1601 S. Gordon Cooper Dr. of colors and the National on an intricately carved stone national obligation to honor Shawnee, OK 74801 Anthem followed by remarks and others can tie cloths drum; the design is simple and this inspired legacy.” 405-275-3121 from Kevin Gover (Director for prayers and healing. powerful, timeless and inclusive. [email protected] NMAI), the Honorable The design incorporates water “When the memorial is unveiled Visiting Arlington National Robert Wilkie (Sec. of Veterans for sacred ceremonies, benches at its dedication ceremony in Cemetery, the Iwo Jima Affairs), the Honorable Debra for gathering and reflection, November, 2020, the country Memorial, WWII Memorial, Haaland (U.S. representative and four lances where veterans, will recognize — for the first Korean War Memorial, Vietnam from New Mexico), John family members, tribal leaders, time on a national scale — the War Memorial Wall and

District 11 – Lisa Kraft in writing. Actually, I like to So, as a Tribal planner for other I’m not talking about legislative plan, apart from the executive make art out of my to-do lists. Oklahoma Indian nations, approval of our Indian Housing branch, so that Tribal leaders I don’t know how else to live I get caught off guard when Plan or the Tribal Transportation have to compromise for the best but in action. I get this from other tribal leaders ask me, Improvement Plan developed by use of our shared resources. my mother. She can crochet, “How often do we update our program directors; I’m talking listen to a basketball game, and strategic plan? Are we on track about strategically planning our Approving resolutions to watch a movie … all at the same with our goals?” or “What part land use, bringing more services support grant requests or time. And as much as I like of the plan do I champion as a to members everywhere, and passing a massive operating spending my time planning, legislator?” Truth be told, I have whether we need to expand budget once a year are indeed creating spreadsheets and never approved a comprehensive or close existing enterprises. legislative action items, but they vision boarding, I love opinion Citizen Potawatomi Nation are not strategically planning for the future of our Nation. I polling my friends and family strategic plan. It’s not that I It was very hard for me to vote invite other legislators to join even more. All of these tools don’t support one; rather, I “yes” on our latest $426 million me in supporting a bill to add create a more robust plan. haven’t been asked to approve operating budget a few weeks Annual Strategic Planning to one these past 12 years. ago. Half a billion dollars in Some people are just like me or projected Tribal revenue next the Appropriations and Budgets Bozho just the opposite, and others, I know, firsthand, that a strategic year is astounding. And while Legislative Committee as a (Hello), somewhere in between. Luckily, plan is of tremendous support to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation whole. In the coming months, I will write of my progress to t’s finally cooling down here we Citizen Potawatomi all most federal grant opportunities legislature, as a whole, can have strong tendencies that our Tribe goes after each year. only act through law and/or by this end and of the legislative Iin Oklahoma. Like most support of such a measure. folks, fall weather kicks me make us who we are. Our When a tribe can demonstrate passing a resolution, it doesn’t in high gear to get ready for great-grandparents must have that it’s following an adopted mean that we have to sit on the As always, I am the winter. I have my wood had multiple plans for our action plan, supported sidelines of strategically planning thinking Potawatomi. stacked, my plants inside, my survival as a Nation when by elected leadership and the future of our Nation or garden canned and my fall making the decision to leave community alike, and making questioning how the money Lisa Kraft garage sale wrapped up. Kansas. And most assuredly, measurable progress on time, can be allocated. If anything, Representative, District 11 the community believed in the it shows the feds that the grant the legislature is empowered by 601 S. Washington St #335 Planning is hardwired into my direction our Tribal leaders were project has a higher likelihood our constitution to pass law, Stillwater, OK 74074 brain. I wouldn’t be me if I suggesting by the act of taking of success, thus making it a good giving us authority to create 405-612-8068 didn’t have Plans A, B and C allotments here in Oklahoma. investment of grant dollars. our own budget and strategic [email protected]

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He married Teresa Lynn Truelock in 2009 (Daniel) Fess, Nicole (Tim) Harmon, She enjoyed writing letters and sending and lived with her and adopted daughter Zachary (Karen) Johnston, Zane Johnston, cards at birthdays and holidays. She was Ryan in Moore until June 2019 when he Zeke Johnston and Kasey (Jeff) Stewart; a member of Hopewell Baptist Church. moved to the nursing home in Enid. five great-grandchildren, Emma, Olivia, She was never shy about witnessing to Reese, Zander and Zaidey; and two brothers, anyone she met. She loved the Lord, her Besides his first three wives, he was Sylvanus (Geraldine) Cote Jr. and Joel Cote. family and fishing. Through her civil preceded in death by parents, Joe and service, her work with the CPN, and her Emily Howard; sisters, Pat Umscheid and A memorial service for Marilyn was held unselfish spirit, she touched so many lives. Darlene Autry; and brother, Earl Howard. Aug. 25, 2019, at Keck-Coleman Funeral Home in St. Johns, Michigan. Internment She was preceded in death by her mother He is survived by one sister, Jolene was held with a private family gathering at and father, Viola Sweetheart and KR Jines; Lockwood of Shawnee, Oklahoma, and one Portland Cemetery, Portland, Michigan, on one sister, Jo Rita Marcus; her first husband, brother, Edwin (Scottie) Howard of Harrah, Sept. 27, 2019. Memorial contributions Donald Ray Bowers of two years; her second Oklahoma; his wife Teresa Howard and may be made to the American Cancer husband of 56 years, Glenn E. Hughes; adopted daughter Ryan of the home (Moore, Society or the Arthritis Foundation. and one daughter, Shiree Dawn Randell. Oklahoma); children, Jody Howard (New Town, North Dakota), Stephanie Roberts and She is survived by two daughters, husband Brent (Enid, Oklahoma) and Lyle Terry Lynn Peltier Sallee Brinlee and Sheila Hughes; five Howard (Ponca City, Oklahoma); and many grandchildren, Jennifer Randell, Bree grandchildren who loved their “Papa Joe.” Beverly Inez (Bowers) Hughes, 84, of Dunham, Jerica and husband Derick Bethel Acres, Oklahoma, went to be Southwell, Matt and wife Jessica Lamey, and A Celebration of Life was held at with her Lord and Savior surrounded Cati Caro; six great-grandchildren, Logan Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, by family Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. and Konner Southwell, Carter and Kaylin Oklahoma, on July 25. He was very gifted Lamey, and Gabe and Bella Jacobs; niece, musically, and the first song played at his Beverly was born to Viola Sweetheart and Casey and husband Jay Larimore; and many celebration service was a recording of him KR Jines in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 15, more nieces, nephews and cherished friends. singing When I Stand in the Presence. 1935. She was a descendant of the Rhodd family of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. A wonderful celebration of life was Oct. Joe was a strong Christian man who loved 19, at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation God and made an impact on many people As a child, Beverly moved to Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Center with Bother in his lifetime. He will be missed greatly City where she later graduated from Capitol Larry Townsend officiating. Internment by his friends and family that loved him. Hill High School in 1953. She married her of Beverly and Glenn Hughes followed at high school sweetheart, Donald Ray Bowers, Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Oklahoma Marilyn Corrinne Megarah and had her first daughter before he passed City. Cards and flowers can be sent to the a year later. She also went on to pursue her CPN Cultural Center, or in lieu of flowers, Former Shawnee resident Terry Lynn Peltier art and education at the Oklahoma College Beverly asked that donations be made (Native American name: M’Ko Wabje’ge, Bear for Women in Chickasha for two years in her honor to the CPN Eagle Aviary. Watching Over), 70, passed away Friday, before going to work for the Oklahoma Sept. 6, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Publishing Company. While working A funeral mass was held at Sept. 14, 2019, there, she met Glenn Hughes who fell in Joseph William Howard Jr. at St. Benedict Catholic Church followed love with both Beverly and her daughter. by a burial at Tecumseh Cemetery. They were married in 1957 and went on to have two daughters together. She and Memorial contributions can be made her family moved to Bethel Acres in 1970 to Passages Hospice, 617 Dublin to let her children enjoy the country life. St., New Orleans, LA 70118. She was passionate about serving her Terry was born Feb. 16, 1949, in Shawnee, country, Tribe and community throughout Oklahoma, to Raymond Paul Peltier and her life. She also went on to work for her Mildred Frances (Thacker) Peltier. He Tribe, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, where graduated from Dale High School and she served for many years as secretary/ attended Murray State in Tishomingo. He treasurer before accepting a position served four years in the United States Navy. at Tinker Air Force Base where she He married Cynthia (Schoolmeyer) on retired after 15 years of civil service. April 25, 1998. He worked for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in the Transportation She was dedicated to helping others, Department and later the Housing Authority especially fellow Tribal members. Beverly for 14 years and had recently moved back took great pride in being a CPN tribal to New Orleans. He enjoyed his job as a member. Her work for the Tribe prior to the DJ at parties and on the radio; he was an landmark Indian Self Determination Act Marilyn Corrinne (Cote) Megarah died avid OU football fan a gifted wood carver. played an integral part in the development Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, at the age of 84. She was born July 31, 1935, in of the Tribe’s presence today. She published He was preceded in death by his parents. Beaverville, Illinois, the daughter of Sylvanus the first edition of the Tribal newspaper, and Cizerie (Marquis) Cote. Marilyn Survivors include his wife, Cynthia Peltier the Hownikan, which now has a print attended Immaculate Heart of Mary of New Orleans; three children, Tracy circulation of more than 15,000. Beverly Joseph (Joe) William Howard Jr., 76, of Moore, Oklahoma, went home to be Catholic Church in Lansing, Michigan, Peltier of Shawnee, Terry Don Peltier and also played a vital role in developing the with his savior on July 18, 2019, in Enid, and worked as a switchboard operator wife Amber of Prague, Brandee Smith and Tribe’s first seal as well as helped to correct Oklahoma. He was born Jan. 3, 1943, in for Jackson National Life Insurance husband Bret of Shawnee; grandchildren, the spelling of the Tribe’s name with Chapman, Kansas, to Joe and Emily Howard. Company and University Oldsmobile. Logan, Joshua and Mason Peltier, Austin the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Peltier and wife Kaitlyn, Kylie, Jorja and proper ‘Potawatomi’ spelling. As an elder, Joe had many different occupations in life, Marilyn married Richard Megarah, and Talon Peltier, Layla and Atticus Smith; she continued to share her knowledge including private investigator and radio he preceded her in death in 2009. She one brother, Darel Grothaus; step- and wisdom and helped guide her DJ, but he spent most of his life in ministry, was also predeceased by five brothers, children, Vicki (Heiss) Sullivan, Henry granddaughters to establish the Tribe’s own including singing, chaplain and preaching. Lawrence, Leonard, Robert, James and Arthur Heiss, Gretchen Lynn Heiss; step- Eagle Aviary. In 2016, she was recognized He loved people and always made a lasting Meryl Cote; and five sisters, Constance grandchildren, Hank Heiss, Hugh Heiss, for her work and received the AARP impression wherever he went. He had a Peters, Elaine Hunt, Patricia Witt, Carol Casey Sullivan and Lauren Sullivan; and Oklahoma Indian Elder Honors Award. wonderful sense of humor in every situation. Mueller and Margaret Forsthoefel. several other family members and friends. Submitting CPN burial assistance through Tribal Rolls obituaries The $2,000 CPN Burial Assistance Fund is automatically available to all enrolled CPN members. You may fill out

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